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Stretching over 12,000 square kilometers, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the largest salt lake on the planet. It is also one of the best places in the world to go cloudspotting. For brief periods during the rainy season, the salt lake becomes flooded
Continue ReadingWe always love a cloud with a name. This thunderstorm complex is well known by scientists interested in tropical meteorology, as it forms on a daily basis at certain times of year over the Tiwi Islands, off the north coast of Australia.
Continue ReadingConscious of increasingly frequent and wide-spread observations of Noctilucent clouds (see May's Cloud of the Month), scientists have speculated as to whether this extremely high ice cloud is an aerial indicator of our contribution to climate change. Forming at altitudes of between 30 and 50
Continue ReadingAnnie Leymarie (member number 828) tells us that Station Luxembourg in Paris is covered in clouds. Artist, Sandrine Alouf, has created a photographic installation, which runs along the RER B platforms of the station. “By showing clouds on the Paris Metro,” explains Alouf, “I intend
Continue ReadingDo you live in a dungeon without a window? Don't worry – you can still enjoy the gentle drift of cumulus by tunrning your TV into a tool for meteorological meditation. 'Colorcalm Skies' is a DVD of ever-changing, calming cloudscapes to play in
Continue ReadingJust when you thought you had to go all the way to Cape Town, South Africa, to see the famous Tablecloth Cloud that forms on top of Table Mountain, some kind fellows have put up a 24-hour webcam. You can watch this 'orographic' cloud spread
Continue ReadingA computer game with no winners and losers? One in which you just fly around making clouds? It can only have come from students at the University of Southern California, dude
Continue ReadingThose who yearn for a little more depth to their cloud photographs should take a look at the 3D photography of Luc de Rop, a member from Sinaai, Belgium. Finally, something worthwhile to look at with those silly glasses that you saved from the back
Continue ReadingEvery cloudspotter should be familiar with the sage words of the english Victorian art critic, John Ruskin, so we have put up an excerpt from ‘Modern Painters’ in which he wonders, as do we, why people don't look up more
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