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⛈️Cloud With Lightning And Rain Emoji

Unicode added ⛈️ cloud with lightning and rain in Unicode 7.0 (2014), filed under Travel & Places → Weather. Its codepoint is U+26C8 U+FE0F, and it is tagged cloud, lightning and rain.

What ⛈️ cloud with lightning and rain means

Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.

Unicode tags this one cloud, lightning and rain and files it under Travel & Places → Weather.

Copy variants

cloud with lightning and rain carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How ⛈️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

⛈U+26C8cloud with lightning and rain
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+26C8 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`⛈️`
HTML decimal	`⛈️`
CSS	`\26C8\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{26C8}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U000026C8\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u26C8\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{26c8}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{26C8}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{26C8}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%9B%88%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 9B 88 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`26C8 FE0F`
Base64	`4puI77iP`
Decimal	`9928 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 7.0 (2014)

Keywords

Appears in these collections

How to type ⛈️

Windows — press Win + . and search “cloud with lightning and rain”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “cloud”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 26c8 and Enter.
HTML — paste ⛈️.

How ⛈️ renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

⛈️Apple
⛈️Segoe
⛈️Noto
⛈️System

Frequently asked questions

What does the ⛈️ cloud with lightning and rain emoji mean?+

⛈️ is the cloud with lightning and rain emoji, tagged cloud, lightning and rain. Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.

What is the Unicode code for ⛈️?+

cloud with lightning and rain is U+26C8 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⛈️, in CSS \26C8\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{26C8}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ⛈️ emoji added?+

cloud with lightning and rain got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⛈️ cloud with lightning and rain.