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The Mystery Storms
No one could agree where they had formed and everyone claimed to have been the photographer. We decided to investigate
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September 7, 2006
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The Cloud Harp
The question of what music to listen to while gazing at the clouds has finally been solved. Nicolas Reeves, a professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, has invented The Cloud Harp – an instrument that creates music from the shape of the
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September 7, 2006
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The Cloudman Cometh
We were very excited to be contacted by the one and only John Day of Oregon, USA. He is commonly known as the Cloudman, as he has devoted his latter years to photographing, enthusing about and explaining the clouds. His website is full of fantastic
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September 7, 2006
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Man-Made Clouds That Aren’t Contrails
Soon-to-be-member, John Diefenbach, is based in Japan and has filmed the world's last mainline steam trains, which operate in Inner Mongolia. Filming in mid-winter, with temperatures down to -30C, the steam effects, in some cases, are spectacular. We told him that we are cloudspotters, not
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September 7, 2006
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Jack Borden and For Spacious Skies
We were contacted recently by the venerable Jack Borden, Boston TV news reporter turned sky enthusiast. At the age of 45 he woke up from a nap in a nature preserve to see a sky he had never experience in all his previous life. "In
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September 7, 2006
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Cloudspotter and Stamp Collectors Unite
If you are a cloudspotter who collects stamps, prepare to have an orgasm. The US Postal Service has issued a set of stamps starring fifteen different types of cloud. All basic genera are featured except, that is, for the nimbostratus. But then it is
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September 7, 2006
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Clouds on Speed
There's nothing quite as mesmerizing as watching time-lapse clouds.
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July 17, 2006