Originally Posted by
Tom!
Few isn't a cloud base, only Broken or Overcast is.
Not true! FEW, SCT, BKN and OVC refer to the amount of coverage. The accompanying figure is the height aal and therefore any amount of cloud, even FEW, will have a base level (but not reported if it's above 5000').
Cloud ceiling, on the other hand, is the base of the lowest layer of cloud obscuring more than half the sky and hence that would only be reported as BKN or OVC.