Field guide No. 1556

Rain pours from dark clouds over a desert plain, and every drop that lands kicks up a puff of dust. The forecast is right; the ground disagrees.

Dry spell

Rain, but make it dusty

Rain pours from dark clouds over a desert plain, and every drop that lands kicks up a puff of dust. The forecast is right; the ground disagrees.

Field noteRaindrops hit the scrub and kick up dust, as if the storm were made of sand.

Specimen
No. 1556
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A desert plain that stays dusty in a downpour
Nearest existing relative
A summer rain shower
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics