national geographic reports the likely discovery of a new kind of cloud - a roiling, rolling, tidal-looking thing called undulatus asperatus - or, affectionately, the 'jacques cousteau cloud' by cloud expert gavin pretor-pinney.
Asperatus clouds may spur the first new classification in the World Meteorological Organization's International Cloud Atlas since the 1950s, Gavin Pretor-Pinney said.
(there's an International Cloud Atlas? i need this!)
if you're a cloudlover after my own heart, check out his talk at the marvellous 'do lectures':
there's also a handbook, and a society if you're that way inclined.
if that tickles your fancy, swing by gavin pretor-pinney's other love - his magazine, The Idler. it's a beautiful thing.
go love yourself some clouds.
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