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Have you taken a photograph of a cloud that you are particularly proud of? Then you could win a digital camera. Member Mark Humpage is running a competition to mark the launch of Cloud, a new natural-world photo agency, and has invited society members to take
Continue ReadingSociety founder, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, was asked by Tate Britain (London) to come to the gallery and discuss the clouds in some of the paintings in their collection. Amongst others, he mentioned cloud painting masters such as Constable and Turner as well as a painting that
Continue ReadingAt the end of July, the Cloud Appreciation Society put on a free exhibition of a selection of the photographs from our new book 'A Pig with Six Legs and other clouds from The Cloud Appreciation Society' at the Port Eliot Literary Festival in Cornwall,
Continue ReadingSociety founder, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, is presenting some short TV segments on cloudspotting to be shown on UK television at the beginning of August. There are five 3-minute pieces, which will appear in BBC1's The One Show (BBC1, weekdays, 7pm) on the dates shown below. Each
Continue ReadingIt is not everyday that you'll find The Cloud Appreciation Society petitioning for FEWER clouds, but that is exactly what we have just done on a UK Government website. We signed up to a petition urging the Prime Minister to take positive action to counter the
Continue ReadingMany of our members have been in touch to tell us about Ewa Wisnierska, the German paragliding champion, who had the misfortune of being sucked up into the heart of an enormous Cumulonimbus storm cloud. They all pointed out that the incident had much in
Continue ReadingWe 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
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