Clear nights tend to be noticeably colder than cloudy nights, mainly because of?

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1. Clear nights tend to be noticeably colder than cloudy nights, mainly because of?

Conduction

Condensation

Unobstructed radiative heat loss to the open sky

Ground-level insulation

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With no clouds to reflect heat back down, the ground loses heat freely to the night sky through radiation, cooling faster and further than it would under cloud cover.