How should a layer of clouds covering two-eighths of the sky at one thousand feet be reported?

When reporting cloud cover, the terminology used is based on the amount of sky that the clouds occupy. The cloud cover is categorized based on eighths of the sky, where a few clouds covering 1 to 2 eighths of the sky qualifies as "few," scattered clouds covering 3 to 4 eighths of the sky qualifies as "sct," broken clouds covering 5 to 7 eighths qualifies as "bkn," and overcast clouds (covering 8 eighths) qualifies as "ovc."

In this case, the question specifies that the cloud layer covers two-eighths of the sky at an altitude of one thousand feet. This amount of coverage falls under the category of "few," which is why it is denoted as FEW. Therefore, to encapsulate that there are few clouds at one thousand feet, it should be reported as FEW010, where "010" refers to the altitude in hundreds of feet.

For the upper cloud layer, since clouds are only present at the lower altitude (one thousand feet), there is no need to mention any additional coverage above that level. Thus, stating FEW010 alone accurately describes the observation without introducing unnecessary information for cloud layers at higher altitudes.

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