{"id":8381,"date":"2024-05-25T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=8381"},"modified":"2025-07-20T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:55:11","slug":"cloud-base-v-s-cloud-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/cloud-base-v-s-cloud-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Base v.s Cloud Ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2773\/1296\/files\/Cloud_Ceilings_vs_Cloud_Bases_-_Pilot_Mall.png?v=1702686161\" alt=\"Cloud Ceilings vs Cloud Bases - Pilot Mall\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A cloud base\u00a0<\/strong>refers to the lowest visible part of the clouds over the station.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A cloud ceiling\u00a0<\/strong>refers to the distance between the ground or water and the base of the lowest layer of clouds, which must form a cloud cover that blankets more than half of the sky below 20,000 feet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read More &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/air_traffic\/publications\/atpubs\/pcg_html\/glossary-c.html#$CEILING%20[ICAO]\">C (faa.gov)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CEILING- The heights above the earth&#8217;s surface of the lowest layer of clouds or obscuring phenomena that is reported as \u201cbroken,\u201d \u201covercast,\u201d or \u201cobscuration,\u201d and not classified as \u201cthin\u201d or \u201cpartial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CEILING [ICAO]- The <strong>height above the ground<\/strong> <strong>or water<\/strong> of the <strong>base of the lowest layer of cloud below<\/strong> 6,000 meters (<strong>20,000 feet<\/strong>) <strong>covering more than half the sky.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3pqPVCphCW\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/dew-point-application-calculate-cloud-base\/\">Dew Point Application &#8211; Calculate Cloud Base<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Dew Point Application &#8211; Calculate Cloud Base&#8221; &#8212; Tommy&#039;s Diaries\" src=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/dew-point-application-calculate-cloud-base\/embed\/#?secret=4U8noirfzB#?secret=3pqPVCphCW\" data-secret=\"3pqPVCphCW\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cloud base\u00a0refers to the lowest visible part of the clouds over the station. A cloud ceiling\u00a0refers to the distance between the ground or water and the base of the lowest layer of clouds, which must form a cloud cover that blankets more than half of the sky below 20,000 feet. &nbsp; Read More &#8211;<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/cloud-base-v-s-cloud-ceiling\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atpl-knowledge","category-aviation","category-meteorology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9879,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions\/9879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}