Foreca Weather Symbols
This page provides information about the weather codes used in various Foreca data feeds. Below you will find the mapping between weather codes and symbols and warning icons.
Foreca's custom weather symbol sets and warning icons are available for download in SVG and png formats, exclusively for our API clients throught MyAPI page. Symbols and icons are provided free of charge to be used togehter with Foreca’s API data.
Please note that the use of our weather symbols and warning icons is reserved for customers actively utilizing our API. These symbols and icons can only be used in conjunction with Foreca’s API data and not independently of this service.
The symbol codes work as follows:
Letter (D/N) distinguishes day and night symbols from eachother. We provide different symbols for night and daytime since it can cause confusion if daytime symbols are used to describe night time weather.
For example: daytime, overcast, sleet showers: d421
First number indicates cloudiness
- 0 clear
- 1 almost clear
- 2 half cloudy
- 3 broken
- 4 overcast
- 5 thin high clouds
- 6 fog
Second number indicates precipitation rate
- 0 no precipitation
- 1 slight precipitation
- 2 showers
- 3 precipitation
- 4 thunder
Last number indicates type of the precipitation
- 0 rain
- 1 sleet
- 2 snow
Mouse over the text codes to see the explanation. Pictures are provided only for some of the codes and nonsensical combinations don't even have standard text descriptions. The forecast symbols can also be mapped by Foreca to any subset of the provided symbols. We suggest only using the ones with pictures provided in any end-user services.
Foreca Modern Symbols and Codes:
Day
Night
Foreca Basic Symbols:
Day
Night
Foreca Monochrome Symbols:
Day
Night
Foreca Warning Icons
This page provides information about Foreca's warning icon codes used to represent various weather and environmental hazards. These icons are designed to communicate different types of warnings and their severity levels.
Foreca's warning icons are available for download in SVG format, exclusively for our API clients through the MyAPI page. Icons are provided free of charge to be used together with Foreca's API data.
Please note that the use of our warning icons is reserved for customers actively utilizing our API. These icons can only be used in conjunction with Foreca's API data and not independently of this service.
Foreca Warning Icons:
Warning Icon Code Meanings:
Warning Types:
| Code | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| TH | High temperature | |
| TL | Low temperature | |
| FO | Fog | Fog is causing limited visibility |
| IC | Ice or freezing rain | Ice accretion, dangerous road conditions |
| RA | Rain | |
| SN | Snow | |
| TS | Thunderstorm | |
| WI | Wind | |
| AQ | Air quality | Air quality is low, e.g. due to air stagnation and traffic |
| AS | Volcanic ashfall | |
| AV | Avalanche | |
| TU | Tsunami | |
| DU | Dust storm or sandstorm | |
| EA | Earthquake | |
| FD | Fire danger | Fire or risk of fire spreading easily due to dry conditions and/or wind |
| FL | Flood | |
| HW | High waves | |
| UV | High UV index | |
| LW | Low water | Low water level causing danger to vessels |
| SM | Smoke or smog | |
| VO | Volcano | |
| IM | Ice in waterway | Ice causing danger to vessels or at coast |
| CE | Coastal event | Unspecified event causing danger at land or water near coast |
| CD | Civil danger | Contaminated water supply, military or terrorist attack, criminal event, explosion ... |
| EV | Evacuation | |
| HM | Hazardous materials | Release of a non-radioactive hazardous material |
| RH | Radiological hazard | Loss, discovery, or release of a radiological hazard |
| SP | Shelter in place | |
| OT | Warning | Generic message used for unclassified event |
| OK | No alerts | There are no alerts for the location |
Warning Severity Levels:
| Code | Level | Description |
|---|---|---|
| R | Red | Event is very dangerous. Exceptionally intense phenomena. |
| O | Orange | Event is dangerous. Unusual phenomena. |
| Y | Yellow | Event is potentially dangerous, but not unusual. |
| OK | No alerts | There are no alerts for the location. |
| NP | Not applicable | Event doesn't have significance by nature. |
Warning icons combine the warning type (e.g., WI for wind) with severity level (e.g., _r for red). For example: wi_r.svg represents a red (very dangerous) wind warning.