Why do some clouds look solid, while others look translucent? We reveal all in Cloud of the Month for November…
Category: Cloud of the Month
Every month, we choose one of our favourite photographs from the Cloud Gallery to become our Cloud of the Month.
Cloud of the Month for October, spotted during ‘the blue hour’, is all about the time of day…
Eyebrows will be raised about the classification of September’s Cloud of the Month…
Cloud of the Month for August is the rarest of the ten main cloud types…
July’s Cloud of the Month is a rainbow wheel of fortune. Find out more…
June has seen numerous spottings of ‘noctilucent clouds’ across Europe and North America. Why might these rare night-shining clouds, which form right up at the fringes of Space, be starting to appear more and more frequently…?
May’s Cloud of the Month shows how a Cumulus with big ambitions can develop a cloud halo…
Waterfalls and water rises in the Cloud of the Month for April…
Cloud of the Month for March has mysteries blowin’ in the wind…
February’s Cloud of the Month is a smile in the sky…
Cloud of the Month for January is an ocean of Stratus – best viewed from above, and with time on your hands…
To counter the December season of excess, we have selected as Cloud of the Month the simplest, most understated of formations…
For November’s Cloud of the Month, we show why the window seat is the only seat fit for a cloudspotter…
October’s Cloud of the Month are comforting mamma clouds over Argentina…
In September’s Cloud of the Month, we reveal the mysteries of cookie-cutter clouds…
A mighty Cumulus demonstrates cloud power with the help from a far more retiring cloud friend in the Cloud of the Month for August…
July’s Cloud of the Month shows why in summer the best cloudspotting can be after dark…
Storms that Spin: Cloud of the Month for June comes twisting from the western edge of tornado alley in the US state of Colorado…
May’s Cloud of the Month is a rare combination of optical effects, all tied up in a bow…
In April’s Cloud of the Month we ask ‘What is a sunset without clouds?’…
In the untamed twisting, turbulent air downwind of mountains, fine filigrees of cloud can form…
Ever wondered why clouds sometimes line themselves up into regimented ‘streets’ like this? Of course you have, and now is your chance to find out with February’s Cloud of the Month…
Our Cloud of the Month for January shows Sea Smoke over the coast of Maine, US…
Ice jellyfish in the sky…
A dramatic lenticularis sunset reveals the contour lines of the sky…
The Cloud of the Month for October reveals the waves above…
For September’s Cloud of the Month, we’ve chosen a display of ‘anti-crepuscular rays’…
It is time to clear up some confusions about what is, and what isn’t, a ‘shelf cloud’.
Your chances of seeing the vibrant ‘circumhorizon arc’ optical effect are either fantastic or hopeless, depending on where you are and the time of year…
When a mountain goes for a 17-Century look…
Welcome to the ’anvil crawler‘…
Cloud of the Month for April is the accessory cloud known as a ‘pileus’…
It is not often that we at the Cloud Appreciation Society wish the clouds away…
The aliens have landed in February’s Cloud of the Month…
Cloud of the Month for January is a rain cloud that changed its mind…
Cloud of the Month for December is the ghost of rainbows past…
Earlier this month, a peculiar ring appeared in the clouds over Warwickshire, England…
When you see a flat-looking rainbow, right down close to the ground, you are looking at a ‘lowbow’…
Cloud of the Month for September is a storm with mood lighting…
August Cloud of the Month is the variety known as ‘lacunosus’…