Travel & Places · Emoji 0.7
⛈️Cloud with Lightning and Rain Emoji
Generally, it means there’s bad weather – rain, lightning, and thunder. People use it to describe the actual weather or to express how they’re feeling when it’s stormy.
The ⛈️ emoji is a thunderstorm.
- Unicode
- U+26C8 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :thunder_
cloud_ and_ rain: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ⛈️ Cloud with Lightning and Rain emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
02 — Platforms
Cloud with Lightning and Rain emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the cloud with lightning and rain has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Cloud with Lightning and Rain emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :thunder_cloud_and_rain:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+26C8.
04 — How to type
How to type the ⛈️ Cloud with Lightning and Rain emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+26C8 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Cloud with Lightning and Rain emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cloud with lightning and rain as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Emoji PNG library →06 — Combinations
Cloud with Lightning and Rain emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cloud with lightning and rain for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What ⛈️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What ⛈️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the cloud with lightning and rain lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
⛈️ vs 🌤️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Cloud with Lightning and Rain
Code: U+26C8 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :thunder_cloud_and_rain:
Generally, it means there’s bad weather – rain, lightning, and thunder.
Unicode name: Sun Behind Small Cloud
Code: U+1F324 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :mostly_sunny:
Basically, it just means “partly cloudy” or “it’s a bit cloudy but still nice.”
11 — History
Where the ⛈️ Cloud with Lightning and Rain emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 0.7, the cloud with lightning and rain has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 12.
Same character every time — U+26C8 U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Cloud with Lightning and Rain was approved as U+26C8 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ⛈️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ