Field guide No. 1475

A small puddle on cracked red mud sends a single thin stalk of water up to a grey cloud. The rain is being returned.

Puddle reaching the cloud

Going back up.

A small puddle on cracked red mud sends a single thin stalk of water up to a grey cloud. The rain is being returned.

Field noteWaterspouts link sea and cloud for a few minutes. This puddle managed a very thin one.

Specimen
No. 1475
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
Cracked red mudflats under one grey cloud.
Nearest existing relative
A waterspout.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics