I got up to take a look, but after three days of entirely cloudless skies it was pissing down with rain and the cloud base somewhere around the top of the garde

I got up to take a look, but after three days of entirely cloudless skies it was pissing down with rain and the cloud base somewhere around the top of the garden fence. Of course even down south here at 56.5°N it still gets light really early this time of year, so it was already light enough to see that I was not going to see the moon.