Cloud with lightning and rain

What ⛈️ means

A full thunderstorm, with rain pouring and a bolt striking from a dark cloud. People send it for stormy weather and, just as often, for a stormy mood: anger, a bad day, or a fight that is brewing.

Pairs with 😤 or 😡 when someone is fuming, and with ☔ for real storm warnings. "Boss is ⛈️ today" warns coworkers to keep their heads down.

🌩️ is lightning alone with no rain; ⛈️ is the whole storm.

Facts

Cloud with lightning and rain ⛈️ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under sky weather. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :cloud_with_lightning_and_rain:. People also look for it with words like “cloud”, “lightning”, “rain”, or “thunder”.

Timeline

1. 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

travel & places · Unicode 7.0