My Kind of Club: Cloud Appreciation Society
Sunday, May 15th, 2022 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kAdmiring clouds has been one of my happy places since the pandemic started.
Today I discovered the Cloud Appreciation Society: they teach, they do cloud-a-day photos, they've got a free cloud spotting app Android/iOS, they're what I've been hungering for.
Pretty pictures, named "mamma" not described "dense grid of downward facing cones"
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Date: 2022-05-15 11:22 pm (UTC)You're most welcome!
Date: 2022-05-16 01:16 am (UTC)I think I'll be spending a lot of time there.
They let you browse the gallery with useful filters. Today I learned that 22° haloes are a thing.
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery/filter/22-halo/
After admiring 20 or more examples, I'm primed to learn how a 22° halo happens.
Oooh nifty!
Date: 2022-05-15 11:25 pm (UTC)Re: Oooh nifty!
Date: 2022-05-16 01:17 am (UTC)My very great pleasure.
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Date: 2022-05-16 12:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-05-16 01:19 am (UTC)and there are thousands of them!
as well as a "name this cloud" forum. These pics would be great for an SF movie, as well as explaining how to use the photo db to find similar clouds
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/forums/topic/altocumulus-lacunosus/
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Date: 2022-05-16 02:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-05-16 09:50 pm (UTC)Ah, so glad to be spreading beauty!
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Date: 2022-05-16 03:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-05-16 09:50 pm (UTC)Perfect icon is perfect!
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Date: 2022-05-16 10:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-05-16 04:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-05-16 09:51 pm (UTC)Great way to get motivated.
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Date: 2022-05-16 09:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-05-16 09:51 pm (UTC)Great big skies! Also in the Great Plains. Really, can't remember anywhere without clouds.
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Date: 2022-05-16 10:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-05-17 09:29 pm (UTC)It's like art criticism for nature -- provides a new context for looking up. For those of us living in the land of "bored of the weather? wait five minutes" have lots of clouds to enjoy.
(I think Farm-in-Iowa-Finn would enjoy learning about this stuff and then educating the neighborhood at top speed & volume.