A dark sky overhead, with rain that is not reaching the ground.
Virga, Rain That Does Not Reach the Ground
25 Tuesday Mar 2014
Posted in az, iPhone Photo, weather
Dagny's Desk
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25 Tuesday Mar 2014
Posted in az, iPhone Photo, weather
Gordy Weigle said:
Hi Dagney,
Very interesting photo. Due to Prescott’s high elevation and low humidity, virga has to be fairly uncommon there.
Pilots that do a lot of lyfing, such as myself, are very familiar with virga – it’s common here in the southwest. Back east, where I lived for many years, I never encountered virga. There, with high humidity and low elevations, the weather is generally lousy for flying on a reguar basis anyway – so rain always reaches the gorund.
Usually, I simply fly around heavy rain storms. Even then, under virga conditions, light rain is still encountered at altitude, sometines even a few miles from the storm’s edge
Best regards,
Gordy
Julia said:
This happens a lot in AZ sort of like kissing your cousin through the screen door “It doesn’t count”.