In article .com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Using the airport's computer, the satellite pic showed no cloud-cover
over our route of flight at all. This, of course, was contradicted by
our Mark V eyeballs, and METARs that indicated a broken to overcast
layer at around 2800 feet,

IIRC visible satellite images will show low clouds as very dark... the bright
clouds are higher. Are you sure it showed no cloud-cover?

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