Cloud Appreciation Society member, Carlos Fernando Jung, has shared with us his latest video “Rainy Day”.

Cloud videographer, Fabiano Diniz rencently sent a time lapse video he made during 4 days in his hometown, Curitiba, in southern Brazil. He told us that Curitiba is normally a very cloudy city, both in winter and summer. At night, low stratus clouds originating from the Sea Mountain Ridge (to the east of Curitiba) cover the area. Fog is not uncommon and it can be seen in the video.

The time lapse begins on December 9th at 7:23pm and ends on December 13th at 9:00pm, 2015 (daylight savings).

Cloud Appreciation Society member, Prof. Dr. Carlos Fernando Jung, has sent us this video that he has made. It is a compilation of cloud photos that we’re sure you will enjoy.

Cloud Appreciation Society member, Alistair Rennie recently sent us this video. The main feature of this video is clouds, with an emphasis on the darker and more menacing attributes of cumulus and stratocumulus formations in particular. The video uses various effects and was filmed in Edinburgh and the Fyvie area of the Northeast of Scotland.

“Stormscapes 3,” the newest ultra-HD time-lapse weather video from Nicolaus Wegner, shows both the beauty and the ferocity of nature and was recently featured on the Huffington Post website.

Cloud Appreciation Society member, Gary McArthur, recently sent us the first of his CloudSurf aerial video series – Flying among the clouds in Tasmania.

Cloud Appreciation Society member, Mike Wragg, sent us this video of clouds forming and breaking up over the village of Leslie in Fife, Scotland. The small hill is the East Lomond, or known locally as Falkland Hill. It was photographed at 2-second intervals from his home in Glenrothes.

Cloud enthusiast, Nienke Lantman, recently sent us this video of asperitas clouds taken over Erm, The Netherlands on 31st August 2015.

Film-maker, Randy Cantu, recently sent us this short film of the Augusta Skyline.

Cloudspotter, Paul Sharp sent us his video. He says about it “I went for a break in the English Lake District back in late spring this year, and saw a lovely sunset. I put my ipad on the roof of the car and recorded a time lapse of it. I like the way you can see different cloud layers moving at different speeds and in different directions, and also how the lower level clouds are in darkness, while the higher clouds remain lit by the sun. The vapour trail piercing the video towards the end adds a bit of drama too!”

Cloud enthusiast, Kevin Lewis, has sent us this timelapse video of Noctilucent cloudes captures on 6th/7th June 2015 from Penmon Point on Anglesey.

Laurence Dyke filmed this wonderful time-lapse of asperitas clouds over Disko Island in the west of Greenland. He was a glaciology PhD student at Swansea University at the time, and was in Greenland to attend a summer school for PhD students organised by the University of Bergen, Norway. “The cloud appeared the day we arrived on the island,” Laurence explained, “after we’d travelled from the mainland by boat through the tail end of a storm.” Laurence now works in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. “I’d never seen clouds like this before,” he added. “The formation was all the more impressive because the wind at ground level was still but the clouds were really shifting.”

This is a beautiful example of a new classification of cloud, which has finally been accepted by the World Meteorological Organisation as an official cloud type. Back in 2009, the Cloud Appreciation Society first proposed that this cloud be added to the classification system. We suggested at the time that it should be called ‘asperatus’, meaning ‘roughened’ in Latin. The WMO have now announced that it will be included in the new edition of their International Cloud Atlas, due out later this year or the beginning of next. This will be the first new cloud classification since 1951. The WMO have decided that the name be changed to the Latin for ‘roughness’. The new name for this cloud is therefore confirmed as ‘asperitas’.

Anyone who is interested in obtaining a broadcast quality version of the video without watermark should contact Laurence Dyke directly at info@laurencedyke.com.

Cloud Appreciation Society member, Martin Thomas, has sent us this video of a waterspout seen off the coast of Selsey near Chichester, UK at the end of June 2014.

Cloud Appreciation Society member, Vicki Smith, recently sent us this video of a horseshoe vortex cloud filmed near Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia in 2011 during a strong westerly. Tim Harris was filming as Vicki’s son Eric Smith flew a remote controlled glider around the rare cloud formation. The horseshoe vortex cloud spiralled as it was blown towards a steep ridge. It dissipated immediately as it reached the updraft rising up the front of the ridge. It is extremely rare for anyone to capture a horseshoe vortex cloud on film like this.

We were recently contacted by film maker, Lucas Martell, who has just released a short animated film called “The Ocean Maker”. The working title for this was “Cloud Catchers” and it’s about sky pirates fighting over clouds in a world without water.

Cloud Appreciation Society founder, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, really enjoyed this film and particularly Lucas’ approach to making the film which was to organise a work collaboration on a Caribbean island!

Cloud enthusiast, Mike Rubin, recently sent us this video which shows him spiralling around a cumulus cloud after a cloud climb. If you enjoy this one, see more at his Fly By Wire videos.

Colynn Kerr recently sent us his timelapse video taken in Alberta, Canada. It is a film of lenticularis clouds at sunset, showing how the formation appears in a ‘standing wave’ of air. As it rises to pass over a mountain, an airstream can take a rising and dipping path in the lee of the peak, with a lenticularis cloud forming at the crest of the wave. You can see the flow of air in the video by the movement of the clouds around the lenticularis, with the lenticularis remaining fixed in place at the crest of the standing wave.