Snow shower
Also called snow showers, flurries, snow shower icon
Forecast icon on a weather app or a public forecast table.
Forecast weather symbolsSnow shower meaning
A snow-shower icon means snow is expected in bursts, not as a steady fall. WWIS lists snow showers apart from snow, and flurries apart from both.
At a glance
- System
- Forecast icon
- Used for
- Snow in bursts
- Not the same as
- Steady snow, or flurries as a separate WWIS label
A forecast icon for snow that starts and stops. Not a steady snow icon.
The name. WWIS lists snow showers and flurries apart from snow. Flurries are not given their own page here.
Where it comes from
WWIS label snow showers sits in a different band from snow and heavy snow, and flurries have a label beside them. The Met Office prints light and heavy snow showers for day and night, separate from light and heavy snow. The logic is the shower logic: the fall can stop, and the sky can break. Flurries are a further wording. This page names them and does not pretend one picture covers every service’s flurry icon.
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Weather
What it means
Snow is expected, and it is not expected to last without a break. A break is not a promise of a dry hour. The chance of precipitation, if the service prints one, still answers a different question: whether any precipitation falls in the period.
Variants
Flurries
WWIS lists flurries on their own. Many forecasts use the word for a light, brief snow shower. If the label says flurries, keep the label.
Questions
What is a snow shower icon?
It forecasts snow that begins and ends, rather than a steady snow. The Met Office draws day and night versions and light and heavy versions.
Are flurries the same as snow showers?
WWIS lists both. They are close in ordinary speech and separate in that table. Do not collapse them if the forecast uses one word.
Near this
- SnowA forecast icon for expected snow. Not a snow shower, not sleet, and not a snowman.
- Rain showerA forecast icon for rain that starts and ends. Not steady rain, and not a thunderstorm.
- SleetA forecast icon publishers label sleet. Not snow, not freezing rain, and not one universal mixture.
- Cloud with snowU+1F328 CLOUD WITH SNOW. Not a snow forecast, and not a snow shower.
Sources
- World Weather Information Service, weather icons
- WWIS weather icon table
- Met Office, what does this forecast mean
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