Usually means: Cloud pattern resembling fish scales.
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  1. mackerel sky: Merriam-Webster
  2. mackerel sky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mackerel sky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mackerel sky: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mackerel sky: Vocabulary.com
  6. mackerel sky: Wordnik
  7. mackerel sky: Wiktionary
  8. mackerel sky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. mackerel sky: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Mackerel sky, mackerel sky: Dictionary.com
  11. Mackerel sky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. mackerel sky: Rhymezone
  13. mackerel-sky: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. Mackerel Sky: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. mackerel sky: FreeDictionary.org
  16. mackerel sky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. mackerel sky: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mackerel sky: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mackerel sky)

noun:  A sky filled with a regular pattern of altocumulus clouds somewhat resembling the skin of a mackerel.

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