We have that in the summer. It’s called “virga.” It’s when rain falls but evaporates before it can hit the ground because of the heat from the desert. It can be seen from a bench if the clouds are out on the valley floor. You can see the clouds and the rain, but the rain disappears before it even gets close to the desert. Pretty cool!
Makes idiots dive on the brakes here.
I’ve seen that. And smelled the flowers and plants opening in the rain upwind hundreds of miles away too far to see even a cloud... and the rain may end before it ever blows down when to you... But the smell of rain on the wind is unmistakable. After you been in the desert a while the smell of rain coming is about the most delicious thing.
Another weird thing I’ve seen in the desert is that sometimes when it snows, you’ll actually have lightning in a snowstorm. Never seen that any place else.