Field guide No. 1522

Three towels hang on a rooftop washing line at sunset, each joined to a small dark cloud above by a column of water. The towels are drying; the cloud is getting the wash.

Upward rain over rooftop towels

Drying, by return to sender.

Three towels hang on a rooftop washing line at sunset, each joined to a small dark cloud above by a column of water. The towels are drying; the cloud is getting the wash.

Field noteWet towels give water to the air anyway; here it just leaves in visible columns, aimed at one cloud.

Specimen
No. 1522
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A city rooftop washing line at sunset.
Nearest existing relative
A clothes horse.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics