‘We’re always looking at the clouds,’ says Nancy Dubin (Member 45,504), ‘to see if they might measure up to earn a Cloud-a-Day mention.’ Here, she spotted Stratocumulus clouds over an edition of Belgian artist Jan Fabre’s 1998 sculpture The Man Who Measures the Clouds in the grounds of the Colle Bereto Winery in Radda in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy.

The organic winery, which has no irrigation beyond what the clouds provide, has adopted the sculpture as a whimsical emblem of cloud watching and weather wishing. Considering distributions worldwide, Stratocumulus is the most common of the ten main cloud types because it forms extensively over open oceans, but it rarely produces much, if any, rain. No irrigation from this formation, therefore, but it did at least measure up as a Cloud-a-Day.