Today I share with you one of the coolest atmospheric phenomena I experienced during my time on the Big Island.

At the time, I called it a “sunstorm” but I’ve since realized that the sun already has little storms of its own. So let’s just call it crazy-spontaneous magical rain, shall we?

Lost? You’ll see what I mean in the video, shot during a particularly lovely, yet bizarre, summer day on Hawaiʻi.

Transcription

Me: This is weird. It’s full-on raining… I don’t know. I was half-expecting a rainbow or something. Not this time, I guess. You just get one cloud, one cloud decides to drop.

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