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Japanese Weather Forecast Flags (Japan)

Overview
North Wind
North East Wind
East Wind
South East Wind
South Wind
South West Wind
West Wind
North West Wind
Clear sky
Clear sky, occasionally overcast
Clear sky, with occasional light rain
Clear sky, with occasional light snow
Clear sky, with occasional light rain or snow
Overcast
Overcast, with occasional clear sky
Overcast, with occasional light rain
Overcast, with occasional light snow
Overcast, with occasional light rain or snow
Rain
Snow
Rain and snow mixed
Temperature rapidly rising
Temperature rapidly falling

See also:

Overview

Before World War II the Japanese weather flags would be flown above some of the tallest buildings in Japanese cities - typically department stores - to report weather forecasts to the public.
The source to all flags in this series is http://www.photoree.com/photos/permalink/1095694-40011478@N00
Miles Li, 12 July 2013

Unfortunately, though the link is apparently permanent, the image wasn't. Does anyone know where to find the source image, or another source for these flags?
As I noticed that Google did not display all of these the same way, I've re-saved these flags with smaller palettes and a light grey background colour. Let's see how Google shows these a few months from now.
Only the rain and snow flag was redrawn, because waiting for this month's FotW to download I got irritated by a small asymmetry, all others are Miles'. I've left the darker blue colour in as I assume Miles had a reason for picking that shade.
The other of the attachments should match the order from my description of the system, which boils down to full colours first, and ordered white, red, blue, green.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 May 2015

image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 01 June 2015

The weather forecast flags were adopted on Feb 1st 1977 by Japanese Meteorological Agency Notice No 3.
Source: http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/hakusho/nc/k19761116001/k19761116001.html
1 White lower third green and blue: Clear Sky with occasional light rain or snow.
2 Red kower thurd green and blue: Overcast with occasional light rain or snow
3 Blue and red quarterly divided: Fog.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 01 June 2015

Is it just these three extra flags adopted at that time? With the rest of it from 1952? Or is there more to it. Miles wrote that this was before the war, but these regulations are second half of the century.
I'll leave it to Japanese readers to translate any relevant bits, but the construction diagrams do tell me I need to redraw some stuff, as the ratios are wrong. At least, they are wrong for 1977; I don't know about 1952 or about before the war.
Of course, now we'll also have to find out what these flags were/are used to, if they're no longer used to signal the weather from tall buildings in the city.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 02 June 2015

The notice No 3 in 1977 says the notice No 64 in 1953 (not 1952) was abolished on Feb 1st 1977.
I am not sure whether three extra flags were adopted as I have not seen notice No 64.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 02 June 2015

I confess I have not been following the work you have been doing on Weather flags, but it occurred to me. Is it possible that the mysterious UFE09-3 one of these Japanese weather flags?
Pete Loeser, 02 June 2015

To my best knowledge, only white, red, blue and green have been used for Japanese weather forecast flag. I have not seen yellow and black.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 02 June 2015