New Cloud, New Name For July’s Cloud of the Month, we’ve chosen a formation that was accepted as a new type of cloud a few weeks ago at the World Meteorological Organisation’s 17th Congress. It is now known as ‘asperitas’, …read more…
Cloud Appreciation Society member, Mick Garton from Edinburgh in the UK contacted us recently with an innovative idea for what to do with your car tax disc holder now that it no longer has to be displayed on your windscreen …read more…
Back in 2011 we wrote a news item about the strange lights that can sometimes be seen dancing in the sky above storm clouds – Dancing Clouds. We saw in a recent post by the Bad Astronomer at Slate Magazine …read more…
On Thursday, 25th June, City University London will be holding an event, “The Weather Experiment: Clouds, Storms and Music” in conjunction with WAM (Weather Art and Music). Join author Peter Moore and singer Pierrette Thomet for an evening of art, …read more…
Tuesday 16 June 2015, 6.30pm to 7.20pm Berrick Saul Building, University of York The BBC series Operation Cloud Lab: Secrets of the Skies brought together a team of scientists who travelled across the US in the world’s largest airship. Along …read more…
As part of our monthly segment on The Weather Channel, Society founder Gavin Pretor-Pinney stuck up a whiteboard and drew a diagram to show how June’s Cloud of the Month forms. Share
Unidentified Flying Cloud The Altocumulus lenticularis cloud is an ‘orographic’ cloud formation, which means that it tends to form as winds are forced upwards to pass over mountains. The name lenticularis comes from the Latin for a lentil, but these …read more…
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