Every day, members of the Cloud Appreciation Society post photos of the sky from around the world. This is why they stop to look up.

Suzanne Winckler

“It’s always a good year for clouds,” said Melyssa Wright, a meteorologist living in York, England, and member 23,652 of the Cloud Appreciation Society.

The group’s mission is to “fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it.”

Clouds, their manifesto says, are not signs of negativity and gloom, but rather “nature’s poetry” and “the most egalitarian of her displays.”