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Overcast vs. Foggy — What's the Difference?

Overcast vs. Foggy — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Overcast and Foggy

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Overcast

Overcast or overcast weather, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization, is the meteorological condition of clouds obscuring at least 95% of the sky. However, the total cloud cover must not be entirely due to obscuring phenomena near the surface, such as fog.Overcast, written as "OVC" in the METAR observation, is reported when the cloud cover is observed to equal eight oktas (eighths).

Foggy

Full of or surrounded by fog.

Overcast

Covered or obscured, as with clouds or mist.

Foggy

Resembling or suggestive of fog.

Overcast

Clouded over.
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Foggy

Clouded or blurred by or as if by fog; vague
Had only a foggy memory of what happened.
Hasn't the foggiest idea how to get home.

Overcast

Gloomy; melancholy.

Foggy

Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy

Overcast

Sewn with long, overlying stitches in order to prevent raveling, as the raw edges of fabric.

Foggy

(figuratively) Confused, befuddled, etc.
He was still foggy with sleep.

Overcast

A covering, as of mist or clouds.

Foggy

Being, covered with, or pertaining to tall grass etc that grows after, or is left after, cutting; moss

Overcast

An arch or support for a passage over another passage in a mine.

Foggy

Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.

Overcast

A cast made in fishing that falls beyond the point intended.

Foggy

Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.
Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit.

Overcast

An overcast stitch or seam.

Foggy

Filled or abounding with fog or mist;
A brumous October morning

Overcast

To make cloudy or gloomy.

Foggy

Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)

Overcast

To cast beyond (the intended point) with a fishing rod.

Foggy

Indistinct or hazy in outline;
A landscape of blurred outlines
The trees were just blurry shapes

Overcast

To sew with long, overlying stitches.

Foggy

Obscured by fog;
He could barely see through the fogged window

Overcast

To become cloudy or gloomy.

Overcast

A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon.

Overcast

(obsolete) An outcast.

Overcast

Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.

Overcast

(figuratively) In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.

Overcast

To overthrow.

Overcast

(transitive) To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.

Overcast

(transitive) To make gloomy; to depress.

Overcast

To be or become cloudy.

Overcast

To transform.

Overcast

To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.

Overcast

To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.
Those clouds that overcast your morn shall fly.

Overcast

To compute or rate too high.

Overcast

To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.

Overcast

To fasten, as single sheets, by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.

Overcast

Completely or almost completely covered over with clouds; - of the sky.

Overcast

Sewn by overcasting.

Overcast

The state of the sky when it is covered by clouds

Overcast

Gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover

Overcast

A long whip stitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling

Overcast

A cast that falls beyond the intended spot

Overcast

Make overcast or cloudy;
Fall weather often overcasts our beaches

Overcast

Sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches

Overcast

Sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next;
Overcast books

Overcast

Filled or abounding with clouds

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