List of Heraldic Charges - Inanimate Charges - Weather

Weather

• Thunderbolts and lightning bolts—also called "lightning flashes"—are shown in a stylized way.
• There is at least one example of a "fork of lightning".
• Clouds often occur, though more frequently for people or animals to stand on or issue from than as isolated charges. There are rare examples of unspecified numbers of clouds in an "atmosphere."
• A "cloud formation": in the arms of the 23rd Air Division of the United States Air Force.
• Clouds forming a genie: in the arms of the 3rd Chemical Battalion of the United States Army.
• In terms of clouds' precipitation, the raindrop as such is unknown,
• The snowflake (blazoned as "snow crystal") is only known in more recent times,
• though the snowball predates this by some centuries.
• There is a perhaps unique example of "sound waves", which can apparently be distinguished only contextually.