The London skyline emerges through luminous layers of cloud and mist in this artwork painted at the turn of the twentieth century by Claude Monet. The artist created no fewer than 19 paintings of the Palace of Westminster between 1900 and 1905, always working from the same vantage point across the River Thames. He depicted the same scene at different times of day and i...

High-school student Chen Shen (Member 65,442) saw this row of orographic Stratocumulus clouds at Erhai Lake in Dali, Yunnan Province, China. The term ‘orographic’ is used for clouds whose formation was influenced by mountains. Chen’s Stratocumulus developed as moist air was forced to rise as it reached the Cang Mountain range. It cooled as it rose, and this caused some...

Marie Botchie (Member 65,477) spotted mamma features hanging beneath the canopy of cloud that stretched out over Paw Paw, Michigan, US. The layer was likely the upper part of a distant Cumulonimbus storm cloud. The rounded pouchlike features can develop when cold air within this spread-out upper part of the storm sinks in pockets, pulling the cloud down in distinctive ...

Joanna Thede, Member 66,865 recently joined the Society and works as a visual artist. Her latest work is called ‘Cumulus’ or simply ‘Cloud’ and was installed outside and lit during darkness in November 2025 in Helsingborg in Sweden.

The description of her work explains, “Cumulus” is a work consisting of 40 kilometers of crocheted fishing line. In Joanna Thede’s work...

Shafts of light and shade rendered visible by atmospheric haze are known as crepuscular rays – at least, they are when you see them emanating from the direction of the Sun. But these light effects have a rarer and less familiar counterpart that only appears when you’re looking the other way completely: off towards the horizon with the Sun behind you.

Anticrepus...