Glass is dropping overcast and just what is VIRGA anyway?
Good morning Augusta.
The fog is cleared up now.
This morning it is partly cloudy. Fog early. High of 79F. Winds from the WSW
at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight it will be mostly cloudy with thunderstorms and a chance of rain
after midnight. Fog overnight. Low of 59F. Winds less than 5 mph. Chance of
rain 20%.
The readings from my own instruments are:
The humidity is 82% with a Dew Point of 60.6ºF and a wind chill of 66.2ºF.
The temperature Is 66.2ºF.
We have East Southeast winds between 0.0 mph and 1.0 mph.
Our Barometric pressure is 29.85 HPA 1010.8 and falling with a weather
graphic indicating rainn.
The UV rating is 0 out of 16, sunset will be at 7:19 PM with Moon Rise at
12:28 a.m. and the moon phase is waning crescent.
For the pilots out there, Raw Metar readings are:
METAR KAUG 301153Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC041 16/13 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP143
T01560133 10161 20122 58003
Visibility is 10.0 miles/16.1 kilometers with overcast down to 4,100 ft /
1,249 m.
We've had no rain here yet, but its coming. . My shoulder aches folks, so
the rain is definitely on the way. You hear that NWS?
Have you ever heard of Virga and wondered what it is?
Virga is a form of precipitation that never reaches the ground. It is
commonly associated with dry thunderstorms.
Virga is any form or precipitation that doesn't reach the ground. There
could be rain virga or snow virga. But in either case, the precipitation
evaporates somewhere on the journey from clouds toward earth. Virga, which
is spelled v-i-r-g-a, is pretty common and you've probably seen it but
didn't know it had a special name. Mostly in the summer, virga can be seen
falling away in streaks from the bottom of one of those puffy gray and white
cumulus clouds on a crisp afternoon. It looks like a torn drape or a
curtain hanging from the cloud, but only down about halfway to the ground
below. Sometimes the air thousands of feet above the ground is moist enough
to produce clouds and rain at the same time that the air closer to the
ground is as dry as a bone. So when rain falls in these conditions it
evaporates on its freefall to earth. So virga is technically virgin
precipitation and its easy to spot its wispy form seemingly hanging in the
air beneath its parent cloud.
The fog is cleared up now.
This morning it is partly cloudy. Fog early. High of 79F. Winds from the WSW
at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight it will be mostly cloudy with thunderstorms and a chance of rain
after midnight. Fog overnight. Low of 59F. Winds less than 5 mph. Chance of
rain 20%.
The readings from my own instruments are:
The humidity is 82% with a Dew Point of 60.6ºF and a wind chill of 66.2ºF.
The temperature Is 66.2ºF.
We have East Southeast winds between 0.0 mph and 1.0 mph.
Our Barometric pressure is 29.85 HPA 1010.8 and falling with a weather
graphic indicating rainn.
The UV rating is 0 out of 16, sunset will be at 7:19 PM with Moon Rise at
12:28 a.m. and the moon phase is waning crescent.
For the pilots out there, Raw Metar readings are:
METAR KAUG 301153Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC041 16/13 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP143
T01560133 10161 20122 58003
Visibility is 10.0 miles/16.1 kilometers with overcast down to 4,100 ft /
1,249 m.
We've had no rain here yet, but its coming. . My shoulder aches folks, so
the rain is definitely on the way. You hear that NWS?
Have you ever heard of Virga and wondered what it is?
Virga is a form of precipitation that never reaches the ground. It is
commonly associated with dry thunderstorms.
Virga is any form or precipitation that doesn't reach the ground. There
could be rain virga or snow virga. But in either case, the precipitation
evaporates somewhere on the journey from clouds toward earth. Virga, which
is spelled v-i-r-g-a, is pretty common and you've probably seen it but
didn't know it had a special name. Mostly in the summer, virga can be seen
falling away in streaks from the bottom of one of those puffy gray and white
cumulus clouds on a crisp afternoon. It looks like a torn drape or a
curtain hanging from the cloud, but only down about halfway to the ground
below. Sometimes the air thousands of feet above the ground is moist enough
to produce clouds and rain at the same time that the air closer to the
ground is as dry as a bone. So when rain falls in these conditions it
evaporates on its freefall to earth. So virga is technically virgin
precipitation and its easy to spot its wispy form seemingly hanging in the
air beneath its parent cloud.
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