The good:
For a cheap jacket this one has a nicely athletic cut, and nice features like pitzips, well contoured adjustable hood and nicely done cuffs.
The bad:
The fabric wets through in under an hour, the fabric wears quickly, and the stitching frays.

Got this jacket after reading reviews on other sites. The 1st one I got the thread around the collar broke, this is due to the new hook and loop closure tugging very hard on the carpet. 2nd one (great RMA and phone order system) kept me bone dry on a day of spring skiing in Washington. It also kept me dry working in the woods during memorial day weekend. So the cloudburst fabric definitely works. But then one of the pit zips frayed in the zipper backing nylons. So I had to use the great RMA of this site.
Great material, Cloudveil just need to use better zipper and thread parts.

Two jackets are down with ... the first was the left pitzip that total blew out after 3 days of use ... The second jacket I got, the button broke and popped off within a week. So, DON'T BUY THIS SHITTY JACKET! I would go for Patagonia's Rainshadow if I had to do it over again. Cloudveil has sold out just like the town it says it comes from ...

It does it job, keeps water away from your body within a few hours. However I felt like there was a puddle in my pockets. The water permeated within time and I was a bit angry with the product. So then I gave it to my uncle who loves it. But he just wears it because of the color. I mean it does good in the City. But I would definitely go with a waterproof rating of over 10k.

I used this jacket for three weeks in alaska this summer. it was absolutely FANTASTIC. water never seeped through once. not even in torrential rain. one day we hiked 15 miles in rain with fog so thick you couldnt see 10 feet in front of you and i was dry. however the reason it did not get a 5 was because just recently the stitching ripped on the left pit zip as i was trying to open it. however, again, the gearhead is set me up with a return and a full refund so all is well.