Rain Bomb
White Pocket, Vermillion Cliffs NM
Thunderstorm at sunset over Buckskin Mountain and the Grand Staircase as viewed from White Pocket on the Paria Plateau of the Vermillion Cliffs in Arizona. Rain bombs, in meteorology, are wet microbursts: sudden, explosive downpours that drop huge volumes of water in minutes, causing instant floods. Photo © copyright by Robert Faucher.