Skyfog

My cloud collection. Point ratings given to cloud formations according to The Cloud Collector's Handbook, by Gavin Pretor-Pinney.

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A great summary of optical phenomena one might find in the sky!

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Horseshoe Vortex! Spotted over Jersey City Heights as the rainy weather we’d had all day rolled away. Low in the sky, undulating slowly and spinning on both ends, this little guy was gone almost as fast as I could get out my phone! Almost as rare as they come.

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An Imaginative Robot That Sees Faces In Clouds

Finding shapes in clouds - a romantic activity found throughout pop culture, and one that often takes a back seat to finding and identifying cloud types for cloud-spotters. 

Follow the link to read about a robot uses face recognition technology you might find on your smartphone or camera to watch for and capture [often creepy] faces in clouds.

For the record, the majority of these clouds are cumulus.

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Nenad Saljic has taken some incredible time-lapse photographs of Matterhorn at night... the cloud arrangements you'll find in his portfolio are breathtaking! (click on photo to view his collection)

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Mitch Dobrowner - Storms (2010-11)

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A few amazing photographs of storms.

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Sighting 8:00pm, June 14, 2012, Mercer County Park Disc Golf Course, New Jersey.

Sundog (20) - As the sun was getting closer to the horizon, I noticed the rainbow-colored bright spot left of the sun, a sundog! Sundogs are 22ª refracted light from ice clouds high in the sky (Cirrus).

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Sighting 6:26pm, June 6, 2012, Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Rainbow (15 + 15 for secondary bow) - By far the most well-defined rainbow I've ever seen, complete with secondary bow, Alexander's Dark Band (between the two bows), and several supernumerary bows just inside the primary bow (difficult to see in this image). 

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Sighting 3:57pm, May 20, 2012, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, just after my car broke down.

Altocumulus Lenticularis (45 + 25 for rare pile d'assiettes) - Strange little UFO-shaped clouds, normally formed when a moist airstream flows over raised ground, cooling as it does. Notice the [subtle] layers in several of these formations, due to alternating moist/dry air layers.

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Sighting 5:14pm, May 19, 2012, during flight back to Philly from LA.

Cumulus Congestus, Mediocris, Fractus and Humilis (15 + 15 for all four species) - Developing storm clouds from my window, lots of shapes and sizes. Notice the tops of larger cumulus congestus rising in the distance.

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Sighting 3:10pm, April 1, 2012, Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Cirrus Spissatus (20) - Thick for a cirrus; looks to be in the process of dissipating. 

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Sighting 4:31pm, March 12, 2012, Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Cirrocumulus Undulatus (40) - A wavy composition, miles high.

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Sighting 3:55pm, February 27, 2012, Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Altocumulus Undulatus (20) - Probably the most wavy cloud cover I've seen!

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Sighting 4:50pm, February 18, 2012, Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Crepuscular Rays in Altocumulus (20) - Rays of sunshine!

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Sighting 2:29pm, February 4, 2012, on the way to New Hope, Pennsylvania.

Stratocumulus Lacunosus (40 + 35 for being in an unruly form) - Near the center of this image, several regular, circular gaps/holes in the cloud layer. Only lasted about 10 minutes.

Stratocumuls Undulatus (20) - On the right side, wavy.

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Sighting 11:49am, January 29, 2012, Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Altocumulus Floccus (30) - Interesting, repeating, wispy clumps.

Cirrus (20) - High in the sky, typical formation.

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Sighting 3:51pm, January 17, 2012, Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Altocumulus "Pancake" (30 + ? for new variety) - This formation seemed very smooth and flat, couldn't identify a specific variety or species.