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Ellen Reintjes, member 27535, sent her work entitled “Good Morning, San Francisco”.
Cloud enthusiast, Susan McLaughlan, suggested “Found” by Kerry Muzzey which accompanies an invigorating video by Mike Olbinski.
Cindy Medina from Las Cruces, NM, loves clouds and the weather. She recently sent us some Haiku poems which reflect her enjoyment.
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Sally Veach is a full-time artist who works from her studio Woodstock, Virginia
Rachel Barham, member 42,760, contacted us about an immense cloud that towered 60,000 feet into the atmosphere
Join us in 2018 at the best location in the world for spotting the Northern Lights…
South Australian artist, Don Fogg (member 13,875) recently sent us his pencil drawing depicting a fully formed cu-nim anvil.
Noctilucent clouds are extremely high ice-crystal clouds that form up in the mesosphere, at altitudes of around 50 miles / 80 km. Their Latin name roughly translates as ‘night shining’. This is because these ghostly rippling clouds only become visible when the Sun is below the horizon for the observer, so that the sky is dark by the sunlight still catches their gossamer forms. Most commonly viewed between 50° and 70° north and south of the equator, noctilucent clouds are made of ice crystals and can only be observed in either hemispheres during the summer months, which is when the mesosphere is at its coldest. ForNorthern-Hemisphere cloudspotters, therefore, the noctilucent cloud has just begun. Keep an eye out towards the northern horizon in the few hours before sunrise and after sunset for the best chance of spotting these mysterious and ghostly formations. Here is a taster video beautifully filmed over Denmark by Adrien Mauduit of what noctilucent cloud spotters at high enough latitudes might be lucky enough to observe.
Welcome to the ’anvil crawler‘…
Cloud enthusiast, Hilary Aulando, recent sent this suggestion for the Music to Watch Clouds By section of our website.
Jeanne Hatfield, member 36420, recently spotted this image on the Dwell website.
Jason D Page recently shared his magical new series, “Pyramids In The Sky”.
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.
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Dean Hunt, member 43078, from Perth Western Australia visits Darwin Northern Territory each year to do a little bit of cloud watching and storm chasing.
Cloud of the Month for April is the accessory cloud known as a ‘pileus’…
Didier Gobert is a French painter who describes his artistic concept as: Supersonique 101, Movement in art and blue sky.
Cloud enthusiast, Lena Arnland, suggested “Nuages” by Django Reinhardt as some relaxing music to watch clouds by.
Cloud Appreciation Society founder, Gavin Pretor-Pinney was recently interviewed about the new cloud type ‘asperitas’ by the Quirks & Quarks show on CBC Radio Toronto, Ontario.
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…
Videographer, Jesús Olmo, has created a series of great cloud videos that will will be sharing over the next few weeks. Here is the first…
It is not often that we at the Cloud Appreciation Society wish the clouds away…
Marie-Judith Jean-Louis has created a project which consists of creating 100 paintings of clouds in the colour trends of the year for cloud art lovers.
Petrina Anthony sent us this poem from her home in Malaysia
Emilie Lemay (member 12,950) lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada
Ad Tinkham is a US artist represented by Lucky Street gallery in Key West, Nash Gallery in Easthampton, Ma. and Gallery 65 on William in New Bedford,Ma.
In this great time-lapse video, Morten Rustad makes a great case for Norway as a cloudspotting destination.
The aliens have landed in February’s Cloud of the Month…
Peter Franke submitted a poem that he wrote circa 1976
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…
Calling all cloud poets! We are launching a poetry competition with Candlestick Press
Matthias Scholl is a talented artist with great enthusiasm for Clouds.
Stephanie Green is a poet, writer, novelist, playwright who lives with her husband in Edinburgh. This a wonderful poem about the Northern Lights
Timothy Joseph Elzinga from Northern Ontario had captured ‘light pillars’ which he says “looked like someone from Star Trek was trying to beam people up“.
Suzanne Winckler, member 41844, has suggested “Fog Bank” by Mary Halvorson Octet as some music to watch clouds by.
Cloud of the Month for January is a rain cloud that changed its mind…