cloudless

As one plane after another shrieked across the cloudless sky, jet-shaped shadows raced across the pavement, alongside cars.

Sunday was one of those cloudless late-summer Dodger Stadium afternoons in which the flags in center field stirred lazily in the slight breeze and the air felt far hotter than the thermometer said.

The mountain peaks jetted into a cloudless Dodger-blue sky as the wind whipped and the waves beneath crested and crashed.

The midday matinee kicked off in 75-degree temperatures under cloudless skies, making it the seventh outdoor MLS Cup final played in temperatures of 70 degrees or higher.

"Clear air" turbulence is, as the name suggests, cloudless and cannot be seen.