Mike Afford Media

Realistic weather effects including animated rain, snow, hail, lightning, sleet, drizzle and many, many more. This set includes pre-made animating GIFs, plus all the original image sequences in lossless PNG format allowing you to resize and rebuild your own animations to suit your own requirements.

92 realistic weather icons. Seamless looping animations.

Royalty free for personal and commercial use

Designed by former BBC Weather Centre Graphic Designer Mike Afford originally as an alternative for those wanting to use the old BBC outlook icons without the worry of potential copyright infringement. This set has now been completely rebuilt to include 40 new weather conditions to complement all major weather data suppliers.

Completely re-designed from scratch, but still featuring real clouds throughout (the original BBC weather icons use British clouds, this time they’re Irish). This ‘realistic’ weather pack has recently been extended to 92 icons.

New additions include ‘hot’, ‘cold’, ‘windy’, thunderstorms with snow, and hail, tornado, smoke, dust/sand, volcanic ash, and many many more (full list below). You can also re-map these icons to match the World Weather Online weather condition codes and many other data suppliers (See ‘Weather Condition Codes’ on the right).

All of the major precipitation types are animated using seamless loops so they run indefinitely without any noticible join. The animations have been carefully optimised to get each loop as short as possible while still maintaining a smooth flow of animation. Most loops are either one or two seconds long, with some loops as short as 10 frames. 7 of the 92 icons are single frames – most of these are the stationary (i.e. ‘non-windy’) cloud backgrounds. A full list with the number of frames in each loop is listed below, and included with the download.

The first frame of each animation has also been used to create a separate ‘static’ icon set (RE-02, available separately here). The image below shows a (static) preview of all 92 icons at a reduced size. The icons are all supplied at 128×128 pixels.

In this pack you get a single zipped file containing the complete set of 92 weather icons. Each icon comes in a named folder containing an image sequence of individual lossless PNG images, each at 128×128 pixels. Each icon also comes supplied in GIF format, and is set to loop indefinitely when animated. The frame rate is set at 30fps, but you are free to remake your own GIFs from the original image sequences at different frame rates, or with different compression, if you need to.

Weather Icon Set RE-03 : Product details

Formats : GIF (92 icons), PNG image sequences (92 icons, images in sequence vary from 1 to 60 frames – see list below)

Background : opaque

Dimensions : 128×128 pixels

Weather icons: 1. sunny, 2. sunny intervals, 3. white cloud, 4. black low cloud, 5. hazy sun, 6. mist, 7. fog, 8. clear sky (night), 9. light rain showers, 10. heavy rain showers, 11. light snow showers, 12. heavy snow showers, 13. sleet showers, 14. light hail showers, 15. heavy hail showers, 16. thundery showers, 17. cloudy with light rain, 18. cloudy with heavy rain, 19. cloudy with light snow, 20. cloudy with heavy snow, 21. cloudy with sleet, 22. cloudy with light hail, 23. cloudy with heavy hail, 24. thunderstorms, 25. light rain showers (night), 26. heavy rain showers (night), 27. light snow showers (night), 28. heavy snow showers (night), 29. sleet showers (night), 30. light hail showers (night), 31. heavy hail showers (night), 32. thundery showers (night), 33. cloudy with light rain (night), 34. cloudy with heavy rain (night), 35. cloudy with light snow (night), 36. cloudy with heavy snow (night), 37. cloudy with sleet (night), 38. cloudy with light hail (night), 39. cloudy with heavy hail (night), 40. thunderstorms (night), 41. partly cloudy (night), 42. cloudy (night), 43. mostly cloudy, 44. mostly cloudy (night), 45. hot, 46. cold, 47. freezing fog, 48. drizzle, 49. freezing drizzle, 50. freezing rain, 51. extreme rain, 52. extreme snow, 53. blowing snow, 54. blizzard, 55. smoke, 56. dust / sand, 57. thundery snow showers, 58. thunderstorms with snow, 59. thunderstorms with hail, 60. windy, 61. hot (night), 62. cold (night), 63. mist (night), 64. fog (night), 65. freezing fog (night), 66. drizzle (night), 67. freezing drizzle (night), 68. freezing rain (night), 69. extreme rain (night), 70. extreme snow (night), 71. blowing snow (night), 72. blizzard (night), 73. smoke (night), 74. dust / sand (night), 75. thundery snow showers (night), 76. thunderstorms with snow (night), 77. thunderstorms with hail (night), 78. windy (night), 79. tornado, 80. tropical storm / hurricane, 81. heavy drizzle, 82. heavy drizzle (night), 83. heavy freezing drizzle, 84. heavy freezing drizzle (night), 85. extreme rain showers, 86. extreme rain showers (night), 87. heavy sleet showers, 88. heavy sleet showers (night), 89. heavy sleet, 90. heavy sleet (night), 91. volcanic ash, 999. null/unknown

Icons & number of frames in each animation:

1. sunny 30

2. sunny spells 30

3. white cloud 1*

4. black low cloud 1*

5. hazy sun 30

6. mist 60

7. fog 60

8. clear sky (night) 1*

9. light rain showers 10

10. heavy rain showers 10

11. light snow showers 60

12. heavy snow showers 60

13. sleet showers 60

14. light hail showers 10

15. heavy hail showers 10

16. thundery showers 60

17. cloudy with light rain 10

18. cloudy with heavy rain 10

19. cloudy with light snow 60

20. cloudy with heavy snow 60

21. cloudy with sleet 60

22. cloudy with light hail 10

23. cloudy with heavy hail 10

24. thunderstorms 60

25. light rain showers (night) 10

26. heavy rain showers (night) 10

27. light snow showers (night) 60

28. heavy snow showers (night) 60

29. sleet showers (night) 60

30. light hail showers (night) 10

31. heavy hail showers (night) 10

32. thundery showers (night) (night) 60

33. cloudy with light rain (night) 10

34. cloudy with heavy rain (night) 10

35. cloudy with light snow (night) 60

36. cloudy with heavy snow (night) 60

37. cloudy with sleet (night) 60

38. cloudy with light hail (night) 10

39. cloudy with heavy hail (night) 10

40. thunderstorms (night) 60

41. partly cloudy (night) 1*

42. cloudy (night) 1*

43. mostly cloudy 1*

44. mostly cloudy (night) 1*

45. hot 60

46. cold 60

47. freezing fog 60

48. drizzle 30

49. freezing drizzle 30

50. freezing rain 10

51. extreme rain 10

52. extreme snow 60

53. blowing snow 60

54. blizzard 60

55. smoke 30

56. dust / sand 30

57. thundery snow showers 60

58. thunderstorms with snow 60

59. thunderstorms with hail 60

60. windy 30

61. hot (night) 60

62. cold (night) 60

63. mist (night) 60

64. fog (night) 60

65. freezing fog (night) 60

66. drizzle (night) 30

67. freezing drizzle (night) 30

68. freezing rain (night) 10

69. extreme rain (night) 10

70. extreme snow (night) 60

71. blowing snow (night) 60

72. blizzard (night) 60

73. smoke (night) 30

74. dust / sand (night) 30

75. thundery snow showers (night) 60

76. thunderstorms with snow (night) 60

77. thunderstorms with hail (night) 60

78. windy (night) 30

79. tornado 60

80. tropical storm / hurricane 30

81. heavy drizzle 30

82. heavy drizzle (night) 30

83. heavy freezing drizzle 30

84. heavy freezing drizzle (night) 30

85. extreme rain showers 10

86. extreme rain showers (night) 60

87. heavy sleet showers 60

88. heavy sleet showers (night) 60

89. heavy sleet 60

90. heavy sleet (night) 60

91. volcanic ash 30

999. null/unknown 60

* single frame only (not animating)