Article: PARTLY CLOUDY? PARTLY SUNNY? IT'S MOSTLY UNCLEAR

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,

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