How it works
Sky in bubble letters on one sideways sheet, for the top of a weather chart or a cloud poster. None of its three letters has a closed ring, so all four fonts print it with nothing filled in. A banner is three sheets.
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Cards for a weather chart
The row under the sheet has a card for each day's sky: Sunny, Cloudy, Partly / Cloudy, Mostly / Cloudy, Overcast, Windy, Breezy, Rainy, Snowy, Foggy and Stormy, with Hot, Warm and Cold for a Temperature row. Today's / Weather, Weather / Chart or plain Weather heads the board; Weather / Helper and Weather / Report label the morning job.
Wind and cloud posters
Wind has one ring, in the d, and of the four fonts only Fredoka keeps it white. For a cloud project, Clouds or Types of / Clouds heads three labels: Cumulus, the heaped clouds with rounded tops, Stratus, a low gray layer, and Cirrus, high streaks of ice crystals. Clear / Sky is the day with none.
- Partly / Cloudy and Mostly / Cloudy print Cloudy at the size of the word alone in Fredoka, Baloo 2 and Chango.
- Of the sky cards, Rainy prints tallest and Overcast smallest. For two cards of one letter size, type both words on two lines.
- Sky and Hot, three letters each, print tallest of the row; Temperature, eleven letters, smallest.
Questions and answers
How do you draw sky in bubble letters?
Pencil a capital S, then k and y, with wide gaps and room under the y for its tail. Round every stroke into a fat outline, keep the arm and the leg of the k apart, then rub out the pencil.
What does cloudy mean in a forecast?
Seven eighths or more of the sky covered by clouds, by the National Weather Service's glossary. Partly cloudy is between three and five eighths, and sunny, or clear, is a sky with no opaque clouds.
Is partly cloudy the same as partly sunny?
Yes, in the National Weather Service's glossary: each means between three eighths and five eighths of the sky covered by clouds. Partly sunny is used only for daylight hours.
How strong is the wind on a windy day?
The National Weather Service's glossary gives windy as winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour and breezy as 15 to 25.