While visiting the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, US, Kathleen Janick (Member 49,856) and her daughter, Dorothy, took in the new exhibit by the Baron Critical Weather Institute. The exhibit’s called ‘How We Know The Weather’, and among the interactive displays is a section dedicated to the formation of clouds, where visitors are invited to ‘reach out and touch a cloud’. Dorothy is interning at NASA in Huntsville this summer. She has a particular interest in tornadoes, which originally developed on account of her name (think Dorothy of Kansas in The Wizard of Oz).

The cloud bowl display in the exhibition forms a cloud that you can touch. Moist air is cooled in the bowl enough to encourage cloud droplets to condense. ‘We both agreed that the cloud exhibit was a highlight of our tour of the museum,’ says Kathleen, ‘and Dorothy suggested I submit the photo of it to the Cloud Appreciation Society.’ Soon, every cloudspotter will want a cloud bowl of their own.