What do the weather symbols represent?
Special symbols representing various weather phenomena, cloud shapes, sky conditions, etc. Includes weather phenomenon symbols for observation records and weather graphic symbols for media dissemination. Common weather symbols are:
1. The picture below shows the weather symbols of common rain. From left to right, they are light rain, moderate rain and heavy rain.
2. The weather symbols in the picture below represent sunny, cloudy, and overcast respectively.
3. The three weather symbols in the picture below are heavy rain, hail and thunderstorms.
4. The three weather symbols in the picture below are sleet, light snow, and moderate snow.
Extended information:
Common terms:
Sunny: The sky has less than 30% cloud cover.
Overcast: The sky has cloud cover accounting for 90% or more.
Fog: A large number of tiny water droplets or ice crystals floating in the air near the ground, reducing horizontal visibility to less than 1 km, affecting transportation.
Light rain: daily precipitation is less than 10 mm.
Heavy rain: daily precipitation is 25.0-49.9 mm.
Thunderstorm: intermittent precipitation that comes and stops and is accompanied by lightning and thunder.
Hail: With the intense vertical movement in cumulonimbus clouds, small hail nuclei repeatedly rise, condense, fall and melt, growing into small ice cubes with alternating transparent layers and falling, which has an impact on crops.
Freezing rain: Raindrops freeze on the ground on the surface of objects below 0℃, also known as rain (frozen by fog droplets, called rime). They often fall down and break power lines, causing the road to freeze and affecting Communications, power supply, transportation, etc.
Baidu Encyclopedia—Weather Forecast