{"id":11392,"date":"2017-06-09T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T18:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11392"},"modified":"2017-06-09T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T18:15:22","slug":"earthsky-what-is-virga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/06\/earthsky-what-is-virga\/","title":{"rendered":"EarthSky: What is virga?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you can see rain falling from the sky and evaporating as it falls through a drier layer of air near the surface. \u00a0This can show up on radar too as an echo with nothing hitting the ground, since radar measures rainfall above the surface. \u00a0This is called &#8220;virga&#8221; and it is fairly common, especially in areas where dry air is most common. \u00a0You can read more about it at <em>EarthSky<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/virga-is-rain-that-doesnt-reach-the-ground?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=2cf52284c3-EarthSky_News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-2cf52284c3-393619445&amp;mc_cid=2cf52284c3&amp;mc_eid=b22da16cce\">here<\/a>. They&#8217;ve got some very nice additional examples at the Cloud Appreciation Society at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudappreciationsociety.org\/?s=virga\">https:\/\/www.cloudappreciationsociety.org\/?s=virga<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11393\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/nimbostratus-virga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11393\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/nimbostratus-virga-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/nimbostratus-virga-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/nimbostratus-virga-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/nimbostratus-virga.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Simon Eugster, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you can see rain falling from the sky and evaporating as it falls through a drier layer of air near the surface. \u00a0This can show up on radar too as an echo with nothing hitting the ground, since radar measures rainfall above the surface. \u00a0This is called &#8220;virga&#8221; and it is fairly common, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11394,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions\/11394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}