Another cloudy morning! Is there any particular reason for the Conspiracy to be doing that, if weather control is a thing?
Maybe if they're, like, getting their usual airplane flights and space launches done?
If so, that's mildly incompatible with the god-war being faked, because if the god-war was faked, they've got better apparently-sky-wide illusion technology than this, and don't need to cloud up the sky to hide things.
Stretches of cloudy weather in an unknown climate don't seem that improbable on priors, but he should start noticing this all consciously.