Microburst!

A microburst might sound like some astronomical minicatastrophe, but it's actually a much more terrestrial event: A sudden accelerating downdraft of wind from a cloud that can, at times, be quite violent. Some are dry, with just air descending at high speed, while some are wet, loaded with water. Photographer Bryan Snider caught the latter when he was taking time-lapse footage of a thunderstorm over Tucson, Arizona, on Aug. 8: You can see the rain falling, then at about 00:11 you can see the mic...