What is the difference between partly sunny and partly cloudy?

Question

What is the difference between partly sunny and partly cloudy?

Answer 1

Partly sunny is the positive way to look at it. Partly cloudy is the negative way.

Answer 2

A weather man who can't make up his mind

Answer 3

I'll put it in to a sentence for example:

Today the weather will be partly sunny.  We'll get a little sun.

Next example:

It will be partly cloudy, and a chance of rain.

It's almost the same.  In both phrases it's a chance of rain because of the clouds.  I work at an astronomy museum.  So I liked the question; although I'm not an Astronomer.

Answer 4

Um..  partly sunny, means most of the sky is cloudy

with some sunshine

Partly cloudy means most of the sky is sunny with

some clouds..

Answer 5

It was sunny the last few days and now it is only partly sunny.

It was cloudy the last few days and now it is only partly cloudy.

Actually I think there is no difference.

Answer 6

Partly sunny is actually a subset used to describe the cloud cover that's not quite mostly cloudy but not partly cloudy.

Tends to mean about 60-70% cloud cover

Answer 7

partly sunny has more clouds while partly cloudy has less clouds.

Answer 8

Nothing really. Just which ever you prefer I guess. It's kinda like the phrase, "The glass is half full. Or the glass is half empty."

Answer 9

I've often wondered that. Here in Maine, partly cloudy days are usually a whole lot nicer that partly sunny ones. I guess if you start with clouds, and progresses towards sun, it's "partly cloudy." But start with sun, and progresses to clouds, it's  "Partly sunny" and blocks out the warmest part of the day.

Answer 10

The difference between the glass is half empty or half full. Optimism or pessimism....