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September 15, 2017
September 14, 2017
Nick Houvras, member 7367, shares this poem inspired by the clouds.
September 13, 2017
Amelia Briggs of the David Lusk Gallery was recently in touch to tell us about their current exhibition entitled “Thin Air” by Catherine Erb.
September 12, 2017
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.
September 11, 2017
Berndnaut Smilde is a Dutch visual artist who in 2012 created a series of self-made clouds.
September 7, 2017
Artist, Richard Thompson, is member 44065. He tells us that clouds have had a large role in his paintings for the last 40 years.
September 6, 2017
Inspired by growing up on the Great Plains in Tulsa, Oklahoma this painting by Marilyn Murphy, member 41144, is done in oil on canvas.
September 5, 2017
Anthony Davis, member 11945, recently sent in this aptly themed poem for our amusement.
September 1, 2017
Peter Wiehl, member 37,862, submitted his painting, “Yonder”, for our enjoyment.
August 31, 2017
Carole Chandler, member 28346, wrote this poem in the kind and gentle company of ‘Marley’, her black Labrador – a retired guide dog aged 11 and apparently, one of our canine cloudspotters.
August 30, 2017
The sky is a favourite subject for the artist, Susan Graeber.
August 29, 2017
Olivia Negron, member 41,836 has shared this beautiful poem written by her grandfather.
August 25, 2017
Artist, Dan Nuttall, says his artwork is influenced by his background in the natural sciences and landscape architecture.
August 24, 2017
Dilip Bhatt, of Rajkot, India, recently sent this poem inspired by clouds.
August 23, 2017
Imogen Bone spends many hours watching and painting the sky in Cornwall, UK.
August 22, 2017
Anahí Echazarreta, member 28211, recently sent us this video of an asperitas formation over Colón, Province of Entre Ríos, Argentina that he captured in November 2016.
August 21, 2017
Cindy Medina of Las Cruces, NM recently sent three of her Cloud Haiku
August 18, 2017
Peter Wiehl, member 37862, recently sent us his painting “Sky and Cloud” in oil.
August 17, 2017
Meg Files from Tucson AZ recently sent us this poem that she wrote for her father’s memorial service.
August 16, 2017
We were recently sent this time-lapse photography by Ulrich und Valeria (aka Cloudhunt42). It is three years of clouds in five minutes…
August 15, 2017
Emilie Lemay (member 12,950) is an artist who lives and works in Canada and who was recently featured in an exhibition in Riding Mountain National Park.
August 14, 2017
Susan Graeber, member 42287, recently sent this example of her cloud art.
August 11, 2017
Christopher Fernie is an enthusiastic cloud poet and has sent this from his Cloud Poetry archive.
August 8, 2017
It is time to clear up some confusions about what is, and what isn’t, a ‘shelf cloud’.
August 8, 2017
We’ve always found that the best way to understand the behaviour of storm systems is to watch them in time-lapse…
August 8, 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.
August 4, 2017
Heike Negenborn (member 8,845) was recently in touch to tell us about an exhibition at the Art Gallery of the Park, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada.
July 31, 2017
Michael Warren, member 37489, recently suggested “Box of Rain” by Wake the Dead. He says “My favorite cloud watching music from the Northern California band “Wake the Dead” accompanied by photos from my wife and me”.
July 24, 2017
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…
July 13, 2017
Cloud enthusiast, Cary Bahora, recently drew our attention to this video asking what the phenomenon shown was called.
July 6, 2017
Manuela Rettweiler, member 42844, recently contacted us about an exhibition that is currently showing in Cologne’s Wallraff Richartz Museum
July 4, 2017
Ruth Bailey, member 37436, has suggested ‘Cloudless’ by Peter Gabriel for our Music to Watch Clouds By section.
June 30, 2017
We were recently contacted by Judi Laing who told us about this video that was shot by Harun Mehmedinovic
June 28, 2017
Robert Austin, member number 43207, lives near Darlington in NE England in the UK. He has a long-standing interest in meteorology in general and in the study of clouds (nephology) in particular.
June 27, 2017
Zoe Notley, member 18698, has this wonderful ‘Spotting Shed’ – a calm place where she can look at the sky in all weathers.
June 21, 2017
When a mountain goes for a 17-Century look…
June 16, 2017
Ellen Reintjes, member 27535, sent her work entitled “Good Morning, San Francisco”.
June 13, 2017
Cloud enthusiast, Susan McLaughlan, suggested “Found” by Kerry Muzzey which accompanies an invigorating video by Mike Olbinski.
June 9, 2017
Cindy Medina from Las Cruces, NM, loves clouds and the weather. She recently sent us some Haiku poems which reflect her enjoyment.
June 7, 2017
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