The weather symbols used on the homepage of this website were designed by our team of graphic designers. They use Adobe Flash Player to enable them to be animated - if you cannot view them below then you will need to download and install the latest version of Flash Player.
Version 1, the current set of 12 symbols, including two Weather Warning triangles, was released on Saturday 2nd January 2010. There are plans for further developments of the set of symbols, which will be made publicly available later in the year.
Sunny spells
Light rain
Light rain showers
Cloudy
Heavy rain
Heavy rain showers
Weather Warning issued
Sleet
Sleet/wintry showers
No Weather Warnings
Snow
Snow showers
This set of weather symbols also contains a wide temperature icon range, ranging from -11°C to +42°C using different colour shadings in groups of three to highlight temperature differences: