A Symbol for Every Weather on Your iPhone
The iPhone Weather app doesn’t include descriptions of the weather symbols. So, Apple has published a handy chart explaining the iPhone weather icons. It’s convenient as there are tiny differences in some of the weather icons while others are pretty easy to understand. To use the Weather app, enter the name of a city, zip code, or airport location. The forecasts for the day and the following week are displayed. Scroll down the screen to see more, like the weekly overview, the chance of rain, air quality, sunrise and sunset times, and other details.
Sunrise and sunset icons are apparent. The arrow is the subtle sign representing the direction of the sun.The icon for Haze is also a sun that appears to be peeking on the horizon, but the multiple horizontal lines stand for particulate matter layers. There are subtle differences between the types of snowy weather. Two symbols are mashed to display the differences between scattered snow, sleet, and blowing snow.The icon that features a crescent moon with two visible stars suggests a clear and starry night. The icon for a cloudy night takes the moon behind a cloud with smaller stars. The weather symbols for showers and heavy showers are not so obvious. Longer lines on the cloud icon are a mark for more severe storms. The iPhone Weather app even has an icon for dust that’s not obvious to understand at first glance.
An Alternate Way to Find What the iPhone Weather Symbols Mean
The Weather Channel provides the 10-Day weather forecast to the Weather app. Tap the tiny logo of The Weather Channel on the app to open the site and use the search bar to go to your city’s weather. The Weather Channel icons are in color and have text descriptions. But if it has a symbol that’s like the one on your iPhone, then you will know what that symbol means.
