WMO weather interpretation code descriptions (& images)

descriptions.json

{
	"0":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Sunny",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Clear",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"1":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Mainly Sunny",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Mainly Clear",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"2":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Partly Cloudy",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Partly Cloudy",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"3":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Cloudy",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Cloudy",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"45":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Foggy",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Foggy",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"48":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Rime Fog",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Rime Fog",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"51":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Light Drizzle",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Light Drizzle",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"53":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Drizzle",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Drizzle",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"55":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Heavy Drizzle",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Heavy Drizzle",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"56":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Light Freezing Drizzle",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Light Freezing Drizzle",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"57":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Freezing Drizzle",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Freezing Drizzle",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"61":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Light Rain",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Light Rain",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"63":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Rain",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Rain",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"65":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Heavy Rain",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Heavy Rain",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"66":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Light Freezing Rain",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Light Freezing Rain",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"67":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Freezing Rain",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Freezing Rain",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"71":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Light Snow",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Light Snow",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"73":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Snow",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Snow",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"75":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Heavy Snow",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Heavy Snow",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"77":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Snow Grains",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Snow Grains",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"80":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Light Showers",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Light Showers",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"81":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Showers",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Showers",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"82":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Heavy Showers",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Heavy Showers",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"85":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Light Snow Showers",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Light Snow Showers",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"86":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Snow Showers",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Snow Showers",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"95":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Thunderstorm",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Thunderstorm",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"96":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Light Thunderstorms With Hail",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Light Thunderstorms With Hail",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	},
	"99":{
		"day":{
			"description":"Thunderstorm With Hail",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		},
		"night":{
			"description":"Thunderstorm With Hail",
			"image":"http://openweathermap.org/img/wn/[email protected]"
		}
	}
}

You are right. I updated it. Thank you

66 should be "Light Freezing Rain"
85 should be "Light Snow Showers"

96 should be "Light Thunderstorms With Hail"

Updated

Awesome, thank you!

Very helpful, thank you!

Thanks for creating this file. 👏🏼
I combine some of the descriptions with the table here, and use these descriptions for the historic weather data I get from Open-Meteo.

Thank you!!

Muchas Gracias 👏

Thanks a lot! This is really helpful!

Great, thank you!!! 🤩

exhaustive list of codes here https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0021/0002199/1.1/data/0-data/HTML/WMO-CODE/WMO4677.HTM

also found this repo https://github.com/roe-dl/weathericons

Thank you so much!

Thank you, really helpful 👍

Should the URLs all be "https:" instead of "http:" ?

thanks it was really helpful for me 👍

Thank you so much!!, really helpful 🫡👍

Thank you

Thank you!!!!

Thank you.
I noticed that there is a gap between 3 to 45 in the list. Is something not listed?
I am interested in knowing the conditions for hot and humid, heatwave, etc. conditions.
Thanks again.

Thank you!

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Incredibly helpful, thank you for making this!

This is part of WMO code table 4677. Automatic stations using other WMO code table 4680.
https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/surface/code.html

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Many, many thanks

Thank you for this! Helps so much!