Field guide No. 442

Over a reed marsh, a curtain of falling sand pours down like rain and heaps up in drifts between the green reeds. The marsh is unsure whether to be wet or dry.

Dry sand rain over reeds

Light showers of sand.

Over a reed marsh, a curtain of falling sand pours down like rain and heaps up in drifts between the green reeds. The marsh is unsure whether to be wet or dry.

Field noteRain is water, which is why marshes like it. Sand only falls out of sandstorms, and never as a downpour.

Specimen
No. 442
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A reed marsh under grey cloud.
Nearest existing relative
A rain shower.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking physics