So anything close to a 50/50 mix is partly sunny/cloudy. Mostly clear/sunny covers 1/8th to 2/8th while mostly cloudy covers 6/8th to 7/8th. How about windy vs. breezy?

MOLINE, Ill. — Mostly sunny, partly sunny, partly cloudy and mostly cloudy. These are just a few of the ways we describe what the current and expected sky is going to look like at a point in time.

Interestingly, partly sunny and partly cloudy mean the exact same thing—but partly cloudy is the correct term for nighttime conditions because you can’t see the sun. “Fair” skies is ...

Sunny, mostly sunny, partly sunny and cloudy (sunless) have comparable definitions for daytime situations. The use of all these terms is loose, but those are the precise definitions. Originally ...

The terms in between — partly cloudy, mostly sunny and mostly clouds — are more ambiguous. To assign the correct term to describe the condition of the sky, meteorologists divide the sky into ...

What’s the difference between partly cloudy and partly sunny? You see those phrases frequently in weather forecasts, and (as commenter KCK pointed out ) it’s a bit confusing because they would ...