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We have often wondered about the particular way that clouds form in the Cantabrian Mountains of Northern Spain. So we were very pleased to receive an email from a Franco Ferro, of Italy, to tell us that they are in fact made by 'El Nubero'.
Continue ReadingOn 25th April 2007, NASA launched a satellite to study the Earth's highest clouds. Now orbiting at an altitude of 375 miles, the AIM satellite (which stands for 'Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere') is the first to be dedicated to the observation of the
Continue ReadingRichard Parnell, Member 7750, has written to tell us of evidence of cloudspotting amongst western lowland gorillas that he observed during a three-year field trip to study them in Congo, Africa. Richard was observing gorillas from a hide next to a jungle clearing. A family emerged
Continue ReadingAre you a teacher who would like to make more use of the sky in your classes? 'For Spacious Skies' is a US organisation set up to encourage the use of the sky as an educational resource. They produce an activity pack, with vaulable ideas
Continue Reading'Hole punch clouds', also known as 'fallstreak holes', occur when patches of high cloud freeze and fall as ice crystals, leaving a dramatic gap behind. You can see examples of fallstreak holes in our cloud photography gallery. The formations only appear in cloud layers consisting largely
Continue ReadingNASA's Mars Expolration Rover turns out to be a robot with a penchant for cloudspotting. In October 2006, during a routine communications pass, it filmed some of the red planet's clouds and gave us a glimpse at how cloudscapes on Mars compare to those on
Continue ReadingAncient Hindus and Bhuddists believed that elephants are the spiritual cousins of clouds and possess the power to encourage the clouds to form and bring rain. We have always thought that this is why so many people seem to see elephant-shaped clouds.
Continue ReadingOn 28th April 2006, two NASA satellites, called CloudSat and CALIPSO, were launched into orbit 438 miles above the Earth to get a better view of the clouds. Whilst this may sound like a rather expensive indulgence for the cloudspotters of the science world, it
Continue ReadingHe was one of Britain’s best cloud painters, and described the sky in his landscape painting as ‘the keynote
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