Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather inquiry - What do the weather symbols on cloudy days and rainy days mean respectively?

What do the weather symbols on cloudy days and rainy days mean respectively?

Weather symbols are displayed as follows:

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.

Extended data:

Cloudy: it can be cloudy when the amount of low clouds in the sky accounts for 4/ 10 ~ 7/ 10 of the sky area or the amount of high clouds accounts for more than 6/ 10 of the sky area.

Cloudy day: it is called cloudy when the amount of clouds in the middle and low clouds accounts for more than 8/ 10 of the sky area. Cloudy days are dark days, and little or no sunlight can penetrate the clouds.

Fog: refers to a large number of water droplets or ice crystal particles suspended in the air near the ground. When this aggregate reduces the horizontal visual distance below 1000 meters, it is called fog; When the visible distance drops to 1000 ~ 10000 meters, it is called light fog.