Did you get a weather alert saying it was snowing? Technically, snow was falling, but it wasn’t visible from the ground. This weather phenomenon is called virga. If you've ever noticed tiny streaks ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Ever looked at a weather radar and seen rain on the screen—even though you’re standing outside and it feels completely dry? You’re not imagining things. What you may be seeing is ...

When you pull up the radar today on the WDRB Weather App, you may see something like this where it looks like a lot of rain is on top of us. Then you step outside and don't really feel anything ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Occasionally, we have a photo sent in to us through Chime In with a comment saying, “This is an interesting weather phenomenon, but what is it?” Watch the video above as ...

Some call it fallstreaks, others call it precipitation trails, and the Germans call it fallstreifen, but most meteorologists call it Virga. Virga is a streak or shaft of precipitation that you see ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On today's Weather Wise lesson, we're going to talk about a little known term in the weather world. A virga kind of looks like someone took a big ball of cotton candy and stretched ...

Above average heat is back in the forecast today with highs generally in the 80s across the plains. Sunshine will be replaced with cloud cover in the afternoon, and we could see a few areas of virga ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever looked to the sky, or even from an airplane, and seen streaks of rain falling from a cloud but not reaching the ...

The past few days, we’ve seen light rain on our Central Texas radars, but most rain gauges have remained dry. This is due to a phenomenon called “virga,” or rain that fails to make it to the surface.