Bright Bigger Moon?

We have no luck at our home.  The moon is always shrouded by the clouds.  It is exciting to see the pictures on the internet.  Maybe it is special effects.  It looks too big to be true.  Likely to be from a telescope.  I look up a number of times but unable to see it.  It is not bright enough to shine through the clouds.  Now that it is high up in the horizon, it is difficult to see if it is really bigger.