fuck "mostly sunny"

at every newspaper i've worked at, there was always the "partly cloudy" vs. "mostly sunny" battle.

i hate most meteorologists. they make me miss weather girls. and i was never really around to know of weather girls other than sterotypical versions on reruns of old shows. but one of the things that has always pissed me off with meteorologists is their inane way of coming up with different ways to say the same thing.

"partly cloudy" and "mostly sunny" are the exact same thing. you can argue that there's a difference, but there's not. if it's partly cloudy, then of course it's going to be mostly sunny. if it's mostly sunny, that means there's gonna be a few clouds.

thankfully (well, for the control freak in me), i was usually in charge of any weather making it into the papers i worked at. and i pity the copy editors or anyone else who tried to challenge me on the "partly cloudy"/"mostly sunny" debate. it was always a losing battle, and i was always the victor.

semantics. oy.