What’s the difference between Partly Cloudy and Partly Sunny?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I found a great resource: the National Weather Service Glossary<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n The NWS defines Partly Cloudy<\/span> as “Between 3\/8 and 5\/8 of the sky is covered by clouds.” And Partly Sunny<\/span>, “Between 3\/8 and 5\/8 of the sky is covered by clouds.” But here’s the trick, “The term “Partly Sunny<\/span>” is used only during daylight hours.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mostly Sunny<\/span> is “When the 1\/8th to 2\/8ths of the sky is covered by with opaque (not transparent) clouds same as Mostly Clear<\/span>, except only applicable during daylight hours.” While Mostly Cloudy<\/span> is “When the 6\/8th to 7\/8ths of the sky is covered by with opaque (not transparent) clouds. Same as Considerable Cloudiness.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n It sounds like the progression works as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mostly Clear or Mostly Sunny: 1\/8th to 2\/8th clouds What’s the difference between Partly Cloudy and Partly Sunny? I found a great resource: the National Weather Service Glossary The NWS defines Partly Cloudy as “Between 3\/8 and 5\/8 of the sky is covered by clouds.” And Partly Sunny, “Between 3\/8 and 5\/8 of the sky is covered by clouds.” But here’s the trick, “The … Continue reading “Partly Cloudy or Partly Sunny”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-4778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-1f4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Partly Cloudy or Partly Sunny: 3\/8th to 5\/8th clouds
Mostly Cloudy: 6\/8th to 7\/8th
Cloudy: 7\/8th or more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"