Published 6/16/09
Anyone and his mother can discover a new species or a new asteroid. But not many people can claim to have discovered a new kind of cloud.
Meteorologists are debating whether to seek formal recognition for the first new cloud variety since 1951, prompted in part by strange clouds photographed in 2006 by Jane Wiggins, a paralegal in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
She later posted the image she labeled “Armageddon” on the website of the Cloud Appreciation Society, an England-based group of more than 16,000 cloud enthusiasts created in 2005.
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Leland says:
I’m a little cloudy over this cloud thing.