What's it called when rain doesn't hit the ground?

[Robb]

OK, smarties. What's the word for rain that falls but evaporates before it reaches earth?

This has been bugging me for some time, and Google has failed me. :shrug:

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Verga

n/t

[Robb]

7. Hooray!! Yes!!

Thank you!! :D :bounce:

[qwertyMike]

2. A cloud

[agates]

3. verga

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. mist?

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. It's called "rain falling into a body of water"

:evilgrin:

[flasun]

6. virga

spelling may be incorrect.

[Canuckistanian]

8. The same with water in a dry river bed. What do they call that?

[NMDemDist2]

11. imaginary, if there is water in the bed it's not dry eom

[El Supremo]

9. You're from Coloradio and don't know that????

We wouldn't be in a drought if all of that rain would quit evaporating before it hits the ground.

BTW, it is spelled 'virga' not 'verga".

[Robb]

12. I'm from Colorado and am a dingbat.

...Memory...failing. Who are you people? Where are my pants? :D

[NMDemDist2]

10. VIRGA

http://www.weather.com/glossary/v.html

[SOteric]

13. Heh. Here in Seattle we get rain even without clouds.

Know what they call that?

[El Supremo]

15. Sunshine!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

19. Humidity?

[SOteric]

24. Actually, It's called

'dry rain.'

It's a phenomenon that occurs when the humidity and the dew point converge in just such a manner as to coat everything in water even though there isn't a cloud in the sky. It's actually pretty rare in Seattle and happens more out on the coast.

[Rowdyboy]

14. An alternate definition of "verga" is the Spanish word for penis

As told to me by a lovely blushing Hispanic woman a few years ago while we were watching "virga" in Denver...

[DemoTex]

17. The correct spelling is V-I-R-G-A

Virga is any form or precipitation that doesn’t reach the ground.

Verga? That explains something. So I guess verga grande means ... oh, well, never mind. Just an echo in my head from the past.

[The Backlash Cometh]

18. Verga is a swear word in Spanish. But I think it's a clean swear word

because I heard my abuela say it once and she would never say anything too naughty.

[leftofthedial]

16. dry

on the ground

[Feanorcurufinwe]

21. Yeah I'd call that pretty dry

[LWolf]

20. It's called

the long-awaited, rare, delightful desert rainstorm around here. That forgets to actually make it close enough to the ground to moisten anything.

[NightTrain]

22. Is this a Polish joke?

:silly:

[PartyPooper]

23. I thought it was called viagra.

:D