When The Daily podcast from the NYT featured the Cloud Appreciation Society recently, they told the story of how we helped identify a new classification of cloud…
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Tom Maloney lives in an area of Colorado known as the Wet Mountain Valley. From his front deck, he can see a sweeping panorama of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. And of course, the sky above it. He recorded this time lapse video in May last year.
Rick Shaefer, member 54,615, is an artist who describes himself as “primarily a bread-and-butter Cumulus man. But do spread the tent sometimes”.
The Sam Handwich Band heard about us on the New York Times “The Daily” podcast. They told us they were amazed that something like our Society exists and wanted to share their music video with us, because it’s full of wonderful cloud images!
Paul Reddick, member 52,023, sent this lyric that he wrote for a friend who composes for, and runs an amateur women’s choir in Toronto.
Gregory Venarsky, member 48,157, sent us this relaxing timelapse of Spring clouds over his old him, Kennewick, Washington, USA.
Sybille Jones recently sent her digital viewpoint of clouds, which she created using Sketchbook.
May Blythe of London, UK, wrote this poem on a very windy day in Lyme Regis, looking out over the sea in-between Golden Cap and the Cobb.
Cloud of the Month for January shows the twisting heart of a mighty storm system…
Often thought of as the enemies of aurora watchers, clouds can in fact add beauty to a sky of Northern Lights as this video by Olivier Staiger shows…
Regina Calton Burchett, member 51261, recently finished this painting of clouds above the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina
Caroline Sullivan sent us this poem written whilst she was a member of a poetry group as she felt people failed to notice our beautiful skies.
Sabino de Bari is a composer and guitarist who recently released a decacorde (10 strings classical guitar) album, Nubes, which is inspired by clouds.
This timelapse video was sent in by Massimiliano Squadroni, and was filmed in the Sibillini Mountains National Park (central Italy) in December 2020
A poem about clouds that look like things submitted by Hilary Thurston, member 54048
Vanessa Norris was gifted a membership by her sibling. She is based in Boston, MA and makes cloud themed pottery.
Marilyn Boyd (Member 45,180) got in touch to tell us about about the latest video from Colorado Springs based storm, sky and nature photographer, Rob Hoff…
Thomas Cowles, member 49393, painted this looming cumulonimbus a number of years ago while visiting New Mexico, USA
Nomad Ovunc, member 53117, and his wife are touring musicians in the US, and regularly criss-cross the country. Whenever they see a beautiful sky, they stop the car and take a photo.
Artist, Jeanette M Maddix, sent us this atmospheric pastel “Stormy Sky Over the Mesa”.
Matthew Durrant, member 51,720, filmed this timelapse whilst cloudspotting on Harris in the outer Hebrides.
What happens when a cloud blurs a rainbow? Find out in the Cloud of the Month for December…
Sherwin Berger, member 18,239, sent us his cloud inspired poem, “The Cloud Watcher”
Artist, Amy Szwaya, sent us this pastel painting of a September storm in the distance above Wisconsin.
Sohil Pothiawala sent us this time-lapse videos of dark clouds over central Singapore filmed at 1700hrs on 2nd November 2020
Saulius Vaitiekunas, member 50,307, feels a very important part of this installation is the light and shadows.
Isabell T VanMerlin, member 50,870, sent us this painting that her aunt created in the 1960s. Caroline Whiting Fellows was a commercial photographer in New York in the 1930s
This timelapse filmed by James Chambers on October 25 2020, shows the development of an arcus cloud over Rosevale, which is south-west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. An arcus, which is also known as a shelf cloud, is like the front base of a Cumulonimbus storm cloud. Read more about our November Cloud of The Month.
What looked like a cloud tsunami inundated the skies over Singapore earlier this month. We explain what is was in November’s Cloud of the Month…
Janette K Hopper, member 52,724, has painted clouds all her life. This is one of her most recent pieces entitled “Hazy Memory”
A beautiful time-lapse of the northern lights captured and shared by Olivier Staiger. The clouds seem to swim out into a glittering green sea.
New scientific evidence suggests that trees help form high the atmosphere above the ice crystals that make up Cirrus clouds…
Member 49,675, Linda Ben-Zvi, submitted this landscape which was painted by her fiancé, Paul, the summer of their wedding.
Debi Perkins is an artist based in Crestview, FL. who recently discovered the Cloud Appreciation Society. This is one of her latest works.
Massimiliano Squadroni of Scenari Digitali srl, shared this timelapse video which was made through their webcam at Three Peaks South Tyrol – Italy.
This is the latest painting by Thomas Blazier, member 17,468, entitled “Winter Storm” which was inspired by the views around Albuquerque, NM, USA.
George Preoteasa, member 41,445, tells us that this summer he has been obsessed with capturing the Milky Way as it moves across the sky above the Catskills.
Mary Romer, member 50,765, wrote telling us about cloud paintings she has completed this year whilst living through these extraordinary times as well as the Cloud Garden Art Initiative.
Artist Norma Greenwood created the public art installation entitled “Cloudscapes” which is showing in the Jacksonville, Fl. International Airport.
Tim Blofeld, member 45,721, sent us the link to this video by Bartosz Wojczyński of a lenticular cloud above Teide taken seamlessly from day to night.