Any Meteorological types here? I have a question.

[tekmantwo]

What is the term for rain that isn't quite rain?

 

The word I'm after starts with a 'V', I think. ..

 

It's the descriptor for a heavy mist or dew that is still airborne but falling, not fog...

[rocket]

https://www.wunderground.com/glossary/

 

verga

[tekmantwo]

11 minutes ago, rocket said:

https://www.wunderground.com/glossary/

 

verga

That's the one, thank you.  I had been thinking it was verga but I talked myself out of it, kind of paralysis by analysis...

 

That is a huge page!.definitely bookmarking it--

 

(Quote from page) 

Virga

As rain falls from the cloud, it can evaporate before reaching the surface. This most frequently occurs in dry climates with dry surface conditions.

[New World Explorer]

33 minutes ago, tekmantwo said:

The word I'm after starts with a 'V', I think. ..

Vrain? LOL

[tekmantwo]

It could be that I spent too many years working in the desert sun, I knew that I had heard the term but I haven't been in SoCal for many a year. ..

[New World Explorer]

2 hours ago, tekmantwo said:

It could be that I spent too many years working in the desert sun

I promise to be more considerable to a "cooked brain" LOL ......

[tekmantwo]

8 minutes ago, Gregexplore said:

I promise to be more considerable to a "cooked brain" LOL ......

I know you guys get pretty warm over there, what,  it's afternoon for you now, right? 

 

It's 1:30ish in the morning here in California,  it was upper 70sF today,  it's supposed to be a little cooler tomorrow. I think it was over 80F in Sacramento,  about an hours drive West of us.

 

When I worked in the desert it was no big deal to be a couple of floors up, walking beams and welding and it would be 120F, maybe 124F...made it uncomfortable to sit on the steel. .

 

Edited April 27, 2018 by tekmantwo
Words, who knew?

[New World Explorer]

5 minutes ago, tekmantwo said:

I know you guys get pretty warm over there, what,  it's afternoon for you now, right? 

Its 6.50 pm and 18C ... very typical autumn weather ..