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Are 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
Continue ReadingStretching 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
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