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In this entertaining and enlightening talk, Society founder Gavin Pretor-Pinney gives a tour of the sky, showing how to distinguish the many different cloud formations, from the common Cumulus to the rare and fleeting Kelvin-Helmholtz cloud. Gavin argues that clouds are the most evocative and poetic aspect of nature – and that cloudspotting might just […]

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Cloud enthusiast, Ben Brown-Steiner, a post-doc at Cornell University has recently been capturing time-lapse videos of clouds. Last month he captured this wonderful Kelvin-Helmholtz cloud which he has asked us to share with you.

A rarity to spot one of these fleeting formations, how lucky was Igor to spot a pair of Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds over Kharkov, Ukraine.

A blink and you would have missed it Kelvin-Helmholtz cloud over the Gallipoli Peninsular, Turkey.

We are pleased 72 year old Uncle Ed took time out from spotting trains to spot clouds, and photographed the elusive Kelvin-Helmholtz formation over Pocatello, Idaho, US.