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Today's Cloud-a-Day

Wednesday 31st May 2023

When describing a cloud like this Altocumulus, we might add the term perlucidus to indicate that there are gaps between the cloud’s elements, or cloudlets, through which the sky above is visible. Think of the view out a window visible betw…

Cloud of the Month

May 2023

When the sky imitates a turbulent sea and giant meringue peaks, you’re likely looking at an asperitas cloud...

Recent Clouds Spotted

New from our Members

Faces in the clouds over the Hamble river, England.
Cloud Poetry
Buckshot Dot, AKA Dee Strickland Johnson, wrote this ...
Cloud Art
Fern Gadd sent this painting entitled "High Country".  ...
Cloud Music
Magnus Buder from Sweden heard about the Cloud ...
Cloud Videos
Stefano Poli, Member 28,222, filmed this Kelvin-Helmholtz formation ...

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News

Weatherwise Annual Photo Competition

ATTENTION ALL AMATEUR WEATHER PHOTOGRAPHERS! Enter your best weather photos in the 2023 Weatherwise Photography Contest. Winners will be featured in the September/October 2023 issue. One grand prize, one first prize, two second prizes, three third prizes, and several honourable mention prizes will be awarded.* All winners receive a one-year online subscription to the only […]

Clouds at Museum Sinclair-Haus

Hans-Georg Arzt, Member 44,560 send us details of this exhibition at Museum Sinclair-Haus, Löwengasse 15, 61348 Bad Homburg v.d.H.  It is running from 19th March to 13th August and you can see more about it on the gallery website or by downloading the exhibition catalogue

Landscape Stories – Exhibition

Heike Negenborn, Member 8,845, an artist from Windesheim, Germany currently has a solo exhibition entitled “Landscape Stories” at the Galerie Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt.  It’s running from 17th March to 22nd April 2023. The subtitle of this Netscape is “Changing Landscape”. The artist explaineds “In the series of monumental overview landscapes, which were awarded the […]