Reading through a lot of the posts here, I had to chuckle at the "new scope curse" that causes thick cloud cover when someone buys a new scope..
Where I live we have had maybe 2 or 3 spatterings of rain since Christmas and very very little cloud either..
Last weekend I drove a 15 hour round trip in a day to pick up my new scope.
The night I got home and the following 2 nights...OOooOOOoooOOoo... HEAVY cloud cover