On the night of the Titanic sank a large area of high pressure had moved into the North Atlantic so that night it was cold clear and the sea was calm. There was no moon not a cloud in the sky and the stars were out. If there had been a moon that night or if the water wasn’t as calm as it was the iceberg might have been more clearly for the lookouts to see. At the time on April 14, 1912 their appeared to be nearly as much as 1,000 icebergs in the North Atlantic.