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At The Cloud Appreciation Society we love clouds, we’re not ashamed to say it and we’ve had enough of people moaning about them.Read our manifesto and see how we are fighting the banality of ‘blue-sky thinking’. If you agree with what we stand for, then join the society for a minimal postage and administration fee and receive your very own official membership certificate and badge.

Recently Updated:
Attention All Cloudspotters: Subvisible Clouds
Cloud of the Month: ‘Asperatus’ (June 09)
New additions to the Photo Gallery
Latest Art: Puma Moon
Latest Poetry: From Jeniferlee Tucker.
 

The Clouds Are Drifting Along Once More
Regular visitors to this website will have noticed that it has been working very, very slowly over the last few weeks. The pages haven’t been loading properly and there have been lots of ‘Server Unavailable’ errors. This was all because we have had a huge amount of interest in the society from across the world, which has led to everyone trying to access the website at the same time. In the first three weeks of June, the website received no less than 25.5 million hits!
   We have now finally moved to our own dedicated server, which means that we can handle much, much more traffic. The ’server busy’ errors, should be a thing of the past. We like to imagine that our new dedicated server is situated somewhere up in the sky - perhaps, at around 15,000 feet.
   Wherever it actually is, we are confident that it will mean that the problems will be a thing of the past, and visitors can enjoy the site in the way that it is supposed to be viewed.

Cloud of the Month for June
A new variety of cloud…? more

Music to Watch Clouds By
This is where you can hear fantastic cloud-inspired music that has been recorded by our members and by visitors to the site. more

Where Are All Our Members?
We thought visitors might like to know where our members are distributed across the world. So we’ve put up a page showing the numbers living in each country where we are represented. Go to the member totals page.

Cloud Art and Poetry:
Cloud paintings and cloud poetry are up for your edification. Anyone with paintings or verse to share, send them to: ArtAndPoetry@cloudappreciationsociety.org.

The World-Famous Cloud Gallery:
You can search the gallery of our members’ fantastic photos by cloud type, and photographer’s name. And don’t miss the collection of clouds that look like things.
So many fantastic photographs have been coming in recently – clearly, cloudspotting and photography skills go hand in hand. We are very grateful to all the cloud lovers out there.

If you have cloud photos that you would like to share with everyone, and you are prepared to wait for a while for them to appear, then please see our Photograph Submissions page.

The Truth of Skies
Every cloudspotter should be familiar with the sage words of John Ruskin, so we have put up an excerpt from ‘Modern Painters’ in which he wonders, as do we, why people don’t look up more…

The Discussion Area:
The discussion area is open to those with thoughts, questions and opinions about absolutely anything. Anything, that is, so long as it is about clouds.

Joining the Society:
Membership to the society costs just £4 + postage. This has been worked out as the minimum possible fee to cover our expenses. See here for a scientific diagram showing how the fee was arrived at. It means that membership in the UK costs £4.52. To see how to join, and find out how much postage costs for your country, go to the Membership Page.

Don’t be a Stranger
If you’ve got something to tell us, we’d love to hear it. But only if it is about clouds. Otherwise we’re not interested.