Cloud Appreciation Society

Dan Barstow, Member 41,557 introduced us to the ‘Earth Movie Theatre’.  The latest movie Aurora Awakens features photography by  Jessica Meir, Commander Exp 75 of the Aurora Australis emerging over the horizon (Aug 2, 2026). It’s perfectly matched with the soaring choral...

Susan Miller, cousin of Lisa Rigge (Member 49,842), spotted this Cumulonimbus capillatus incus flammagenitus cloud around 15 miles from Santa Fe, New Mexico, US. It had formed over a wildfire, the Frijoles Fire, that had been sparked by lightning. The cloud marked what Susan described as the ‘first real explosion of growth as the fire took hold’. She said, ‘It looked l...

Quentin Shaw (Member 66,395) was watching August’s partial solar eclipse over Cruckton, Shropshire, England when the eclipse itself was eclipsed. He had been safely observing the crescent Sun projected onto a white card when its image suddenly vanished. Looking up, he found a patch of Altocumulus passing across the Sun, dense enough to let him photograph it with his ph...

Bri Hoover (Member 58,560) spotted a feather with shimmering colours, seemingly snagged on a branch high in the sky over Irvine, California, US. Known as a cavum cloud feature, it was floating in a dappled field of Cirrocumulus clouds. The feature is sometimes called a fallstreak hole or a hole-punch cloud, and it appears as supercooled water droplets in one region of ...

Rebecca Hosking, an Australian photographer, filmed this timelapse video along the Great Ocean Road, Fairhaven, in Victoria, Australia.

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