Cloud Appreciation Society

As part of Massimiliano Squadroni’s “Over the Clouds” project he sent us this video which uses using timelapse techniques, with solar-powered webcam systems.  He told us, “This work is inspired by the Icelandic word “Hoppípolla,” representing the joy of jumping into puddles—in this case, above the clouds, within the dreams of children”.  It was filmed over ...

Marcy Cohen spotted the smooth, disc-like form of an Altocumulus lenticularis cloud over the jagged peaks near Fagurhólsmýri, Iceland. Despite appearing like a stack of plates standing on their ends, the formation will have been arranged like plates stacked on top of each other horizontally. The appearance is largely a trick of Marcy’s wide-angle lens as she looks up t...

Many bird species call the coastal waters of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, US, home. Seabirds near Sequim include Common Murres, Pigeon Guillemots, Tufted Puffins, and Brown Pelicans. Sue Norris (Member 66,360) spotted another species on a recent trip to the beach. It had long, white, elegant wings and a solid-looking, weighty body. We’d classify Sue’s cloud bird ...

CloudSpotter app user ‘wyoflower’ spotted a Cumulonimbus storm cloud wearing a combover from the window seat of a flight over Colorado, US.  

This storm’s iffy hairstyle is the accessory cloud known as pileus. This can briefly sweep over the summit of a tall convection cloud like this. The towering cloud likely encountered stable, moist crosswinds over...

Sherry Palmer, Member 27,151, is a landscape artist who returns to the same location again and again to get to know it. She found the perfect place on the Isle of Skye, on the Northwest coast of Scotland and has been travelling there for over 36 years. She says that the island landscape has helped to make her a better artist. 

This painting is of Beinn Sgrithea...