Cloud Appreciation Society

‘These undulating clouds took my breath away,’ said Connie Simon (Member 58,544), who spotted them as she stepped outside in Aptos, California, US. ‘They looked like they were leaping across the sky as they moved east.’

These wavy strips of this unusual Stratocumulus formation are likely the cloud features known as asperitas, named with the Latin word for ‘roug...

‘We take most of our photos at an oblique angle,’ observes Steve Drew (Member 66,523). ‘We rarely just look up vertically.’

When he did just that, over Tunbridge Wells, England, Steve was greeted with this display of Altocumulus perlucidus unobstructed by the clutter of a horizon. Without any terrestrial backdrop, the sky becomes abstract. Its orientation becom...

Jane Corey (Member 23,721) watched a flying carpet of Cirrocumulus undulatus pass over Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Wales. The tiny grains of cloud distinguish it as the high-level clumpy formation Cirrocumulus, while its patterns of parallel ridges identifies it as undulatus. Running perpendicular to these ridges is a line that looks as though it has been cut through the cloud. Th...

From the Earth Movie Theatre, this is Jazz Clouds Day, by Steve Thomas’ Folktales and Fusions. Dan Barstow, Member 41,557 and  Education Mission Specialist at the Association of Space Explorers introduced us to the ‘Earth Movie Theatre’ and we are thoroughly enjoying the...

Lawren Stewart Harris was a founding member of the Group of Seven, a collective of Canadian landscape artists active in the 1920s and early 1930s. The bold lines, sharp angles, and striking colours of Lake and Mountains (1928) make the modernist landscape feel simplified, but there’s complex cloud science at play here.

The clouds beyond the jagged moun...