Field guide No. 1442
Frayed copper lightning over a prairie
The storm needs rewiring
A purple lightning bolt over a dark prairie has a gap in the middle, and both broken ends are frayed into copper strands like a cut cable. The storm needs an electrician.
Field noteLightning is a channel of hot air, but this bolt snapped in two and shows bare copper strands.
Also possible, also breaking material
Towel peaksFolded cotton piles as high as you have cotton. The cable car is the ambitious part.
Where the fox wasStone takes prints only over ages. This one took a fox’s nap in detail and kept it.
Woodgrain watermelon on an enamel tableRings can appear in watermelon flesh like tree grain. The seeds remain where they were.
Velvet rain over an empty fieldRed velvet threads fall from the sky and pile in heaps. Weather made of fabric is unlikely, yet describable.