The society for people who love the sky and clouds.

Read the manifesto and see how they are fighting the banality of ‘blue-sky thinking’.

If you agree with what the Society stands for, then Join the Society to get your
very own membership certificate and badge and start receiving their ‘Cloud a Day’ service.

The online shop has many cloud related gifts including signed copies of cloud books.

For more information go to Cloud Appreciation Society

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Cloud a Day: 26 June 2019

This is the cloud feature known as a tuba – or at least it’s the beginnings of one. Spotted by George Preoteasa (Member 41,445) over Brooklyn Heights, New York, US, it is a cone shaped feature that can develop when the air sucked up into a Cumulonimbus storm cloud starts to spin. If the rotation continues to pick up speed, the tuba can focus into a narrowing finger of cloud that touches down to the surface as a waterspout, landspout or even a tornado. More often, the rotation dissipates, and the ominous cone of tuba just flattens and recedes – lost into the dark, churning underbelly of the mighty storm above.

Cloud a Day: 24 September 2016

The window of an aircraft always offers a new perspective on clouds. The American painter Georgia O’Keeffe was particularly inspired by them as a plane passenger in the late 1950s. She painted a series called Above the Clouds based on the views from aircraft windows. Although this first one, called Above the Clouds I, was on a standard-sized canvas (3 x 4 feet / 0.9 x 1.2m), O’Keeffe’s desire to capture the huge expanse of the clouds viewed from above like this led her to paint Above the Clouds IV on a canvas 24 feet wide (7.3m). That painting was meant to be exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1970, but it couldn't be shown. It wouldn’t fit through the museum doors.

Detail of Above the Clouds l (1962/1963) by Georgia O’Keeffe in the collection of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, US.

Cloud a Day: 4 October 2017

Millions in the United States watched August’s total solar eclipse from below. Only six people saw it from above. This photograph was taken by one of the six astronauts aboard the International Space Station as they watched the moon’s shadow, known as its ‘umbra’, sweep across the American skies.

The moon’s umbra spotted from the ISS at an altitude of 250 miles (400 km) on 21 August 2017.