"Cloudy and Overcast"? What's that? Looking out a rear bedroom window I see the blue sky. In the front, HEY, I see something. I think it is a little CLOUD!
Ooh AG, you are such a tease!
I have never visited Canada, but, I have seen a big chunk of it from 40,000 ft courtesy of messers Boeing and British Airways, and guess what - it was all white.
I guess the whiteness was due to snow rather than someone having a nasty accident with a billion gallons of white paint.
My general experience of snow is that when it falls from the sky, that sky is all "cloudy and overcast".
the horizon is flat (Lake Ontario)
You got that right!
As I peered outof the window at this white expanse, the thought occurred to me "What are those flat bits? Aah, the great lakes of course!" because they were all frozen too as this was in November 1993. (just looked at my old passport).
Just to get the discussion going further, I was flying from London (England) to Houston (Texas) at the time, so why were we over Canada?
JimB