Weather Symbols - What's that "S" with the arrow through it?

Those of you interested in weather will want to learn the 100 weather symbols used today in meteorology. You might recognize some of the more common ones and there will be others that are unfamiliar. 

Here is a great list of those symbols by the National Weather Service's JetStream - Online School for Weather. Click here: Weather Symbols.

Weather symbols have been used by meteorologists for many years on surface weather maps, often seen at station weather plots. Click here: Weather Maps.

So the next time you see a comma or set of periods you might think punctuation, but than again you just might think precipitation! By the way, that "S" with the arrow through it . . . that's a moderate duststorm.