Earther, an environmental news site, recently published an article for their “Get Outside” themed week about the art and science of cloudspotting.

Listen to Society founder, Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s recent interview with Glastonbury FM

Sogno d’Ombra (Dream of Shadow) – Bardiglio Marble – 2017 © Rob Good

Laura Hilkemann got in touch to tell us about a stunning formation of asperitas clouds that were recently flowed across Nebraska, USA

Julie Raymond-Yakoubian, member 24,422, recently contacted us about this interesting cloud-related article

When Society founder, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, was in San Francisco in April 2018, he was interviewed by Michael Krazny on the Forum Show on KQED Radio. There was a phone-in towards the end of the show, and one of the callers asked his advice about cloud books for kids.

“A cloud is a shade in motion” claims this great New Yorker review

As part of our speaking tour of US northwest states, Gavin was interviewed by Michael Krazny for Forum on KQED Radio in San Francisco.

Cloud enthusiast, Mark Hyde, recently contacted us about the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) which is a state-of-the-art, unique collection of optical cameras, fast light meters and X- and Gamma-ray detectors, that will for the first time, will allow researchers to observe lightning in the Earth’s atmosphere with unprecedented detail from space.

The monitor will study the inner workings of lightning allowing us to have more understanding of the impact of lightning on the atmosphere.

There is an in-depth and fascinating article about this on the University of Bath website.

Ruth Bailey from Switzerland, member 37436, was recently interviewed by Carole Koch for GEO magazine

Rebecca Cleland, an avid cloudspotter, was recently in touch to tell us about this list of weather terms.

Julie Raymond-Yakoubian (Member 24422) was in touch to tell us about an article from the journal, Geophysical Research Letters.

John Wood’s 360˚ view of a the optical effect known as a 22-degree halo formed by Cirrostratus clouds over the shipyard in Reykjavik, Iceland…

John Wood, specialises in 360-degree photography, send a fantastic panoramic view of asperitas clouds over New Zealand…

Diane Offill (member 33772) sent us the link to a very interesting about the large cumulus-like formations that can develop above wildfires.

Amy Ellis Nutt of the Washington Post interviewed Society founder Gavin Pretor-Pinney for her recent article which looks at clouds from all angles.

Dr Wilhelm von Zitzewitz, member 6178, recently wrote to us about this cloud inspired building project.

Gavin Pretor-Pinney is giving an illustrated talk about clouds around the world on Sunday 1st October at the Royal Geographical Society, London…

Bernard L Reymond, member 32429, recently drew our attention to this remarkable image.

Explore all things weather – from storms to climate – with this course that looks at the basic processes behind the weather.

Amelia Briggs of the David Lusk Gallery was recently in touch to tell us about their current exhibition entitled “Thin Air” by Catherine Erb.

Cloud enthusiast, Germán Díaz Lopez (CAS Member 28232), is putting on an International Cloud Conference at Granxa Escola Barreiros, Sarria, Lug, Spain from 22nd to 24th September 2017.

Earth & Space Science News recently published an article about the asperitas cloud formation, the newest entry in the International Cloud Atlas. It includes commentary from Giles Harrison, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Reading, UK and Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of CAS, who together investigated the science behind asperitas. The team suggests that the new feature owes its appearance to oscillating streams of moving air contained with it and goes on to explain why asperitas forms.

It’s a very informative piece and you can read it in full here.

Manuela Rettweiler, member 42844, recently contacted us about an exhibition that is currently showing in Cologne’s Wallraff Richartz Museum

Zoe Notley, member 18698, has this wonderful ‘Spotting Shed’ – a calm place where she can look at the sky in all weathers.

Develop your cloudspotting skills here!

Join us in 2018 at the best location in the world for spotting the Northern Lights…

Jeanne Hatfield, member 36420, recently spotted this image on the Dwell website.

Read the wonderful cloud poems by the winner and runner-up of our recent cloud poetry competition with Candlestick Press.

Matthew MacKenzie, member 42913, spotted this article on the BBC News website.

In 1892 Edvard Munch painted The Scream and in the background the sky in full of colourful wavy lines. Scientists from Norway have theorised that these are probably Mother of Pearl or Nacreous clouds. These clouds are usually spotted two hours after sunset or just before sunrise and are extremely bright with vivid, shifting iridescent colours.

Click here to read the full article.

Professor John Thornes (member 26) is an expert on the depiction of weather in art. He has recently had an essay published in Tate Magazine in which he solves a puzzle about the rainbow depicted by the English landscape artist, John Constable, in his painting Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows. Professor Thornes’s work is a great demonstration of how science can inform art and vice-versa.

View a PDF of “A Reassessment of the Solar Geometry of Constable’s Salisbury Rainbow” by Professor John E Thornes.

The cloud that we identified ten years ago is being accepted by the World Meteorological Organisation this week…

We were recently contacted by Dan Clouse, Society Member 42181, who had read an article about the cyanometer, an instrument created purely to measure the blueness of the sky.

We can’t believe how many amazing sky photographs the users of our CloudSpotter iPhone app have now sent in…