The cloud with snow emoji is your digital snow day alert: a puffy gray cloud dumping frosty flakes like it just binge-watched Frozen and took notes. People drop it to say it’s actually snowing outside, to manifest cozy vibes (hot cocoa, fuzzy socks, fireplace playlist), or to warn friends that travel plans are about to meet their final boss: slush. It also doubles as an attitude check—used for “icy mood,” “cold take,” or “my DMs are a tundra,” especially when paired with a side-eye or skull emoji for maximum drama. Meme-wise, it’s big during polar vortex threads, weather app screenshots, and that annual tradition where everyone posts their ruler-in-the-snow pic.
On Apple/iOS, the emoji shows a soft, rounded gray cloud with gentle shading, facing forward like a cotton puff. Beneath it fall crisp, six-pointed icy-blue snowflakes mixed with tiny pale dots—think flurries in mid-drop. There’s no face, no wind swoosh, just clean, chilly minimalism that screams “bundle up.” Expect it in texts about school closures, ski weekends, cuffing-season jokes, and any time the office AC is set to “Arctic documentary.”
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
