Cloud with lightning and rain emoji meaning

The cloud with lightning and rain emoji shows a dark cloud with a streak of lightning and raindrops falling beneath it. It is often used to symbolize stormy or severe weather conditions. Beyond weather, this emoji can also represent challenging or intense situations in life, emotional storms, or moments of tension. It is a versatile symbol, used both literally for weather forecasts and figuratively to convey feelings of turbulence or unrest. This emoji is part of a broader set of weather-related images, helping people communicate about both nature and emotions in simple, visual ways.

The cloud with lightning and rain emoji is also known as Thunderstorm Emoji.

The cloud with lightning and rain emoji was approved in Unicode 5.2 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/07259