What does the symbol of weather forecast mean?

The symbols of weather forecast represent various weather phenomena, clouds and sky conditions.

Weather sign patterns are special symbols representing various weather phenomena, clouds and sky conditions. Includes weather phenomenon symbols for observation and recording and weather graphic symbols for media communication. Common weather signs are: light rain, moderate rain, heavy rain, sunny, cloudy, cloudy, rainstorm, hail and thunderstorm.

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Weather symbols are mainly used for weather forecasting, and are the identification, definition, expression and use methods of weather symbols serving the national public meteorology. The weather symbol standard is applicable to the static expression of weather symbols in national public meteorological services. Weather symbols are simple symbols used to express meteorology, which are often used in sunny, rainy, cloudy and foggy days.

It allows you to distinguish the current weather situation very quickly, and dynamic weather symbols are generally used to represent the weather situation in weather forecast videos. When observing a certain weather phenomenon, meteorological observers should record the corresponding symbols in the "Weather Phenomenon" column of the observation record book of the day, except for a few phenomena, and also record the starting and ending time.

Based on these symbols, combined with the intensity, coexistence and some characteristics of weather phenomena, a group of symbols that can be filled in weather maps are called cartographic symbols. In order to make it easy for the public to understand and identify, a set of images and graphs representing weather phenomena has been formulated for TV or other public media.