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Article: PARTLY CLOUDY? PARTLY SUNNY? IT'S MOSTLY UNCLEAR
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- October 19, 2004
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Possibly the most asked question in weather has nothing to do with
hurricanes, how much snow we'll get this winter or global warming.
I get this question a lot, by e-mail, by phone, from people at
work and at church. I'm not the only one.
"Rarely will I make it through a Rotary meeting or church senior
club speech without that question coming up," said WDBJ Channel 7
meteorologist Robin Reed, responding to a query I sent by e-mail to
some local meteorologists.
The question: What is the difference between partly cloudy and
partly sunny?
I thought I knew the answer, definitively and decisively. Again,