A carwash captures the all-sloshing, soaking, random, bucketing wetness of a strong storm.

‘An Atlantic storm was slashing around us like a carwash…’

See also the quote rich mosaic review of this magnificent, entrancing book: a love letter to islands and a paean to the sea. 

Source: Adam Nicolson, Sea Room: An Island Life (London: Harper Collins, 2013 (2002)), p. 204