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At The Cloud Appreciation Society we love clouds, we’re not ashamed to say it and we’ve had enough of people moaning about them.Read our manifesto and see how we are fighting the banality of ‘blue-sky thinking’. If you agree with what we stand for, then join the society for a minimal postage and administration fee and receive your very own official membership certificate and badge.

Recently Updated:
Attention All Cloudspotters: Opportunity rocks on Mars
Cloud of the Month: Microbursts (May 08)
New additions to the Photo Gallery
Latest Art: Ian Peill
Latest Poetry: From Jacqueline Mai.

May’s Cloud of the Month
The most uncivilised of all clouds…
Go to Cloud of the Month.

Where Are All Our Members?
We thought visitors might like to know where our members are distributed across the world. So we’ve put up a page showing the numbers living in each country where we are represented. Go to the member totals page.

A few copies left of our 2008 Cloud Calendar
It features the best images from our Cloud Photo Gallery, and is no less than a glorious celebration of majesty and beauty of the sky. The 2008 Cloud Calendar is a perfect gift for any cloudspotter, be they young, old, middle-aged, human, animal or other… See the 2008 Cloud Calendar in the Cloud Shop…

Cloud Art and Poetry:
Cloud paintings and cloud poetry are up for your edification. Anyone with paintings or verse to share, send them to: ArtAndPoetry@cloudappreciationsociety.org.

The World-Famous Cloud Gallery:
You can search the gallery of our members’ fantastic photos by cloud type, and photographer’s name. And don’t miss the collection of clouds that look like things.
So many fantastic photographs have been coming in recently – clearly, cloudspotting and photography skills go hand in hand. We are very grateful to all the cloud lovers out there.

If you have cloud photos that you would like to share with everyone, and you are prepared to wait for a while for them to appear, then please see our Photograph Submissions page.

The Truth of Skies
Every cloudspotter should be familiar with the sage words of John Ruskin, so we have put up an excerpt from ‘Modern Painters’ in which he wonders, as do we, why people don’t look up more…

The Discussion Area:
The discussion area is open to those with thoughts, questions and opinions about absolutely anything. Anything, that is, so long as it is about clouds.

Joining the Society:
Membership to the society costs just £4 + postage. This has been worked out as the minimum possible fee to cover our expenses. See here for a scientific diagram showing how the fee was arrived at. It means that membership in the UK costs £4.52. To see how to join, and find out how much postage costs for your country, go to the Membership Page.

Don’t be a Stranger
If you’ve got something to tell us, we’d love to hear it. But only if it is about clouds. Otherwise we’re not interested.