Attention All Cloudspotters
You can’t look around when you’re looking up, so we’ve had a look around for you.
If you have cloud news that you think we should include here, please email it to us at: news@cloudappreciationsociety.org.
We know how all you cloudspotters out there are reluctant to do the washing up because you don’t have tea towels to be proud of. We know what problems this can cause with your friends and partners. Well now that particular impediment to family harmony is no longer. We are proud to introduce in our Cloud Shop none other than the glorious new Cloud Appreciation Society tea towels…
We’ve got a few left of society’s Cloud Calendar, 2012. So, in the long tradition of February calendar discounts, we now have them on sale at half price: just £4.99 each (+ postage/shipping).
Each month of the Cloud Calendar features a stunning cloudscape photographed by a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society, selected from the many thousands on our photo gallery. For each image, there is a brief account by the member of what inspired them take the photograph and, at the back of the calendar, a spread gives descriptions and explanations of the cloud formations featured.
You can buy the discounted calendar in our cloud shop.
Mike Sharp’s image of lightning over Penang, Malaysia is a beauty, and so receives the highest honour of cloud photographs sent in to us during the past month: it becomes February’s Cloud of The Month.
Landscape Treks are a small company who guide people to wild locations in the UK’s mountains to experience superb scenery, capture stunning images and above all, enjoy being in the great outdoors.
If you would like to join one of their treks specifically to enjoy being guided to some remote locations and enjoy some cloud watching please contact them via their website.
A Crocheted Cumulus from 'Cummulus' at the Paris experimental sci-art gallery, Le Laboratoire
Barbara Felicetti of Ardmore, PA recently drew our attention to this article on the New Scientist website by their CultureLab editor, Kate Austen who was lucky enough to visit the experimental sci-art gallery “Le Laboratoire” in Paris to view these beautiful crocheted cumulus clouds.
“Lit from within and above, the swathes of crocheted white wool hang from the ceiling to just half a metre above the ground, casting familiar shadows on the gallery floor. The fluffy cashmilon wool chosen by the artist, Argentinean architect Ciro Najle, works well for cumulus clouds – the puffy ones that can precede thunder storms, and are precursors to the godfather of clouds, the cumulonimbus” she says.
You can read the full New Scientist article here and see details of the exhibition here.
Cloud enthusiast HelmutVölter recently contacted us about an exhibition he curated for The Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland entitled “Cloud Studies – The Sicentific View of the Sky”. The exhibition is currently running until 12th February 2012.
The exhibition contains a range of original cloud photographs that have been produced and used in many different ways. There are cloud atlases (the first International Cloud Atlas from 1896), cloud photo albums, single photogrpahs, hand books, press photographs, magazines and films. The Japanese physicist, Masanae Abe observed and filmed the clouds around Mt Fuji in the 1930′s.
You can see more about the exibition here.
Ryan Verwest's image is January's Cloud of the Month
…and it’s a beauty. Not only does Ryan Verwest’s photograph show one of our favourite cloud types, the lenticularis cloud, it also shows the beautiful rainbow colours that can result from the sunlight passing through a cloud’s edges. Not all clouds have silver linings. Some have multi-coloured ones.
See the January Cloud of the Month here.
Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds over Taiwan. © Jochun Ho.
But not all examples of Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds are this elusive. Some recently appeared in the skies over Birmingham, Alabama, US, which no one could have missed. These wave clouds were so low in the sky, and had such prominent breaking-wave shapes that they stunned locals, who filmed posted videos on YouTube.
They dramatic waves soon flooded the media, newspapers and Internet. They became known as the ‘Alabama tsunami clouds’.
The world may have been stunned that breaking waves can appear within the clouds like this but bit members of the Cloud Appreciation Society. They have been sending in their amazing and beautiful Kelvin-Helmholtz cloud photographs for years.
We would like to wish a very Merry Christmas to all our members – both old and new. And to get you in the mood, we’ve picked out a few festive clouds that look things from the society photography gallery:
Santa Claus flying in over Texas, US, towed by his his trusty clouddeer. © Jason Tack.
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A Christmas tree over Mercogliano, Italy. © Modestino Carbone.
Father Christmas having a bad-hair day over St. Ives, Cornwall, UK. © Mandy Flockton.
Cloud of the Month for December: a nice bit of Cirrus
The Cloud of the Month for December is some fancy Cirrus clouds spotted over South Carolina, US, and photographed by Betty Owen. You can see previous Clouds of The Month here. (Please bear with us when it comes to some of the older entries, as we are still updating the layouts).
