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Six-pointed asterisks whose number gives the snowfall's intensity.
Also known as: Snowfall plot symbols, Star weather symbol
Snow is drawn as six-pointed stars, counted for intensity exactly as rain's dots are. Using the same counting rule across the whole present-weather table is what makes it learnable, since the shape says what is falling and the count says how hard.
Denote snow, the six-pointed star being the WMO symbol and the count stepping through light, moderate and heavy.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
Follow the same counting rule as rain and drizzle, so the shape identifies the precipitation and the number gives the intensity.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
Two or three six-pointed stars, each of three straight lines crossing at a common centre, in a small cluster.