It depends upon the meteorologist, so here it's sometimes just partly cloddy...

The clods will limit radiational cooling. so you might be spared bitter cold temps.

Our coldest days are the brightest. Cloudy in January means warmer.

IDK why this has begun to bother me, but I don't think 'cloudy' was always mangled this way -- or by so many. Any speech therapists here with the diagnosis? Lazy lips? Speaking too fast?

Lazy speech and poor grammar and pronunciation are symbols to me of the dumbing down of US society. We sink to the lowest common denominator, and it is at a low level.

Chisue, where can I hear that? I’m curious and will tune in!

bpath -- It's everywhere. I rest my scoliosis back in the afternoons and hear it on the radio -- WGN's traffic/weather woman (Mary Something) is consistent. There are clouds, but more than one, it's cloddy.

Oh, vanderveldt or something like that. I haven’t noticed. But I miss Tom at 4, he’d call over from the tv studio. I’d usually be running afterschool pickups and dropoffs so it was good to listen to. I’ll try to tune in this afternoon.

I've not heard that. I follow only one local/regional news channel for weather reports. They have reasonable enunciation, or my hearing has dimmed more than it seems regards to the right ear going dead 17.5 years ago such that I'm not catching the mangle-ation.

Really makes me wonder how many people seem to be unaware of the existence of regional and other accents...

Not just cloddy, but somehow there is now an ”sh” sound to start “stretch” as in, ”a shtretch of cloddy weather”.

tj

I've been hearing that most of my life, tsuga - maybe it's a southern thing?

Pork chopsh and appleshaush.

foas, I had such a crush on Peter Brady! but that thing was a little too geeky.

"Really makes me wonder how many people seem to be unaware of the existence of regional and other accents..."

Yep.

warsh = wash

boo-fey = buff-ey

Up here in my part of the midwest, we tend to pronounce middle t's as d's:

pardy = party

hardy = hearty

We also have a habit of dropping end g's:

talkin = talking

walkin = walking

If you listen very closely to people from my direct area, you can sometimes hear a very, very subtle k sound on the end of -ing word. And in the Detroit area, we put an S on things that have no business being pleuralized: "I'm goin' to the Krogers" when, in fact, I'm going to THE Kroger.

I pronounce bag like bayg -- someone ribbed me about it one time, and I'm really sensitive about it, I make a conscious effort to not to pronounce it that way but it's hard. Especially since I tend to speak very fast.

The examples are seemingly endless. Part of the charm of of an area (for me) is hearing the regional accents. It's the vocal fry and upspeak that grate against my ears...

That made me recall my BIL telling me how when his family moved to OK, he got reprimanded when his grade school teacher asked him to spell 'Warshington' 😄

^^ LOL!

P.S. My dad was a born & bred New Yorker with parents from London, England, so he definitely said 'soar' for 'saw', etc. - so did my Grandpa, great aunts and uncles 😉