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Painting the Sky, by Thomas Kast
Kast was searching for clear skies in Finnish Lapland to capture the beauty of a polar night when he encountered these polar stratospheric clouds.
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Cloud Atlas Adds First New "Species" in Almost 70 Years
The World Meteorological Society announce that it is recognizing 12 new cloud-related features in its latest update to the International Cloud Atlas, released this week. These will be the first additions since 1951. As Matt McGrath at the BBC reports, the first International Cloud Atlas was released in 1896 and included 28 color photos. The last edition was produced in 1975 with an update that came out in 1987. This latest edition is being presented as a web portal on the WMO website.
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'Hand of God’ The Cloud That Resembles a Fireball in the Sky
This cloud was recently observed over the Portuguese island of Madeira, but why does it look like a fireball?
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How plankton help control clouds over the world’s most remote oceans
These tiny organisms play a big role in regulating the Earth’s climate. By Daniel Grosvenor.
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Nine rare and beautiful cloud formations
From the ethereal to the ominous, our planet's skies are teeming with strange clouds.
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Out of thin air: is this the world's newest type of cloud?
Ten years ago, Gavin Pretor-Pinney decided to rebrand clouds, or what he likes to refer to as the “patron goddesses of idle fellows.” For too long, clouds had been co-opted by bleak expressions like “head in the clouds” and “under a cloud”; dismissed as stains on otherwise beautiful blue skies; and maligned as harbingers of crummy weather and bummer vibes. Pretor-Pinney wanted to change all that.
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