Rain Freckles

I wasn’t expecting rain today at all. No clue that it was in the forecast. So when it started, I double checked. It wasn’t in the forecast!

My first clue that there was weather in the area was the thunder and lightning showing up in the Friends of Big Bear Valley video feed. Outside, seventy miles away, it was moving in.

A few minutes later, the rain started here. It was a desert rain, HUGE drops hitting hard, but not a lot of them.

It was also really dry, extremely low humidity, so the drops hit and evaporated almost immediately, leaving the “rain freckles” effect for quite a while before it actually looked wet.