On Apple/iOS, this emoji is a soft, rounded gray cloud with gentle shading, facing forward like a cotton puff. Beneath it, crisp six-pointed icy-blue snowflakes fall alongside tiny pale dots—think a flurry mid-drop. There’s no face and no wind swoosh, just clean, chilly minimalism that says “bundle up.” You’ll see it in texts about school closures, ski weekends, cuffing-season jokes, and any time the office AC is stuck on “Arctic documentary.”
As for vibe and meaning, consider it your digital snow-day ping: a fluffy gray cloud dumping frosty flakes like it just wrapped a Frozen marathon and took notes. People use it to report that it’s actually snowing, to summon cozy vibes (hot cocoa, fuzzy socks, fireplace playlist), or to warn that travel plans are about to meet their final boss: slush. It doubles as an attitude check—perfect for “icy mood,” “cold take,” or “my DMs are a tundra,” especially when paired with a side-eye or skull emoji for extra drama. Meme-wise, it pops during polar vortex threads, weather app screenshots, and that annual ritual of ruler-in-the-snow pics.
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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.
