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	HOW TO DETECT AND FORECAST VIRGA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Virga is hydrometeors that evaporate or sublimate before reaching the earth's surface.
		Virga is more likely when precipitation is falling from a relatively high cloud base and the lower tropospheric RH ambient environment is fairly dry.
		Virga is common on radar in winter when light snow or rain is detected aloft but the lower troposphere is initially dry.
	www.theweatherprediction.com /habyhints/272 (373 words)

	Virga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Virga is a meteorologic term for precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground.
		Virga also has a role in seeding storm cells, where light particles from one cloud are blown into neighbouring supersaturated air and act as nucleation particles for the next thunderhead cloud to begin forming.
		Virga is a Latin word for a branch or twig, and hence for objects made from it, as a broom, a staff or a rod (hence the English word virge).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virga (245 words)

	NOAA Home Page - Question of the Month
		A: The precipitation in the shower is rain, snow, or a wintry mix known as virga.
		Virga is defined as wisps or streaks of water or ice particles falling out of a cloud but evaporating before reaching the earth's surface as precipitation.
		Virga can appear as straight lines or exhibit a hooked or curved form as the water or ice particles are blown by the wind as they fall.
	www.noaa.gov /questions/question_081701.html (208 words)

	Public Citizen \| Litigation Group \| Litigation Group - Servicemaster, et al. v. Virga - Defendant's Memorandum in ...
		Virga asks the Court to deny the requested injunction and dismiss the claims on numerous grounds, including the First Amendment, res judicata, lack of personal jurisdiction, lack of merit under the trademark and other laws that plaintiffs have invoked, and other equitable grounds.
		Virga's use of plaintiffs' names in the HTML code for her web site even if treated as a trademark use, as alleged by plaintiffs is just the sort of consumer commentary that courts fastidiously protect.
		Virga is a salaried employee of a California company that does not compete with Terminix, and in any event her web site is unrelated to her employment.
	www.citizen.org /litigation/briefs/IntFreeSpch/articles.cfm?ID=1881 (7327 words)

	Virga -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Virga is (The falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)) precipitation that falls from a (A visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude) cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground.
		Virga also has a role in seeding storm cells, where light particles from one cloud are blown into neigbouring supersaturated air and act as (additional info and facts about nucleation particle) nucleation particles for the next thunderhead cloud to begin forming.
		Virga can produce dramatic and beautiful scenes, especialy during a red (The time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon) sunset.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/virga.htm (215 words)

	The Virga Aurea - Seventy-two magical and other related alphabets
		The Virga Aurea, or to give the full title, "The Heavenly Golden Rod of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Seventy-two Praises" consists of a list of seventy two alphabets (actually seventy, plus Latin and Hebrew which are the two languages of the text of the plate).
		The Virga Aurea was published as a large engraving (approx 20" by 32") at Rome in 1616, though it seems from internal evidence that Hepburn originally produced an illuminated manuscript bearing the essentials of the work done in various colours and possibly using gold.
		If we further take into account Hepburn's interest in the Kabbalah, and his translation and publication of a Solomonic occult text, I think we are justified in assuming that Hepburn may have, in some small way, contributed to the public revelation at that time of the esoteric wisdom of the past.
	www.levity.com /alchemy/virga_aurea.html (1264 words)

	CHAPTER 5
		Virga is defined as precipitation falling from clouds but not reaching the ground.
		Virga is not considered to be present weather or an obscuration.
		Virga is not considered to be present weather or an obstruction to vision.
	www.faa.gov /ATPubs/SWO/chapter_5.htm (1546 words)

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		VIRGA is defined as a fallstreak of precipitation, not reaching ground but evaporating in mid-air.
		Virga fallstreaks in combination with sunrise or sunset can give a stunning view of deep red hairy fibers reaching down from the clouds.
		A virga fallstreak usually consists of snow, and when this melts, it may be hardly visible.
	phobos.physics.uiowa.edu /~clang/virga.html (65 words)

	Virga: falling precipitation that evaporates before reaching the ground
		Note the lack of precipitation beneath the dissipating storm cell, except for the white virga streak behind the tree line.
		The area close to this virga could be quite dangerous for low-level aircraft operations.
		Microbursts that occur with virga are aptly called dry microbursts, even though a spattering of raindrops may reach the surface.
	ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu /(Gh)/wwhlpr/virga.rxml?hret=/arch/cases/961109/data/snw/rad.rxml (88 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Virga/Lunt: Baxendall
		Virga's work starts us off, as "Shining" fades in on a curiously tuned, pitch-bent, layered guitar, gradually developing into a stew of pulsing electronics, warbling feedback tones and snippets of speech.
		It's far more of a rock song than any of Virga's solo pieces, and hints at the textures that Lunt will soon be layering into his work.
		The album's closer is an eleven-minute reimagining of Virga's "Shining"; it smooths out all of the original track's rough edges, and while it's not quite as effective, it's still pretty nice to hear the track's concept redone as if by an angelic chorus.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=1081851572759277 (539 words)

	Perspective: Welcome to the world of free-speech exterminators
		Virga, a middle-aged secretary from California, was a victim of a slash-and-burn legal assault mounted by Terminix simply because she used the Internet to air a complaint.
		In the Terminix case, the company initially sued Virga for any use of its name on her Web site, but later, after realizing how absurd that was, said its objection was only to its corporate name in the site's "meta tags." Experts describe meta tags as a kind of subject card catalog for the Internet.
		Had Virga been a competing pest control company, say, Orkin, and was using Terminix in her meta tags solely to trick potential customers into taking a look at a rival Web site, then Terminix might have a case.
	www.sptimes.com /News/031900/Perspective/Welcome_to_the_world_.shtml (822 words)

	Public Citizen \| Press Room - Consumer Group Helps Citizen Control Legal Pest
		Virga received a "clear" report for a home she purchased with her husband; however, the company overlooked numerous problems.
		Virga's Web site would be like giving a consumer the freedom to pass out leaflets expressing her objections to Terminix but only from her front lawn where almost nobody will see them," said Paul Alan Levy, Public Citizen's lead counsel in the case.
		Virga or by driving her off the Web by the threat of ruinous litigation, Terminix could both set a dangerous precedent for other consumers and insulate itself from effective criticism on the Internet.
	www.citizen.org /pressroom/release.cfm?ID=400 (683 words)

	School of Communication - Jim Virga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 2001 Virga was awarded an MA in Visual Arts and Communications from The Newhouse School of Communication at Syracuse University.
		Virga joined the faculty at The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia in 2001 where he taught a three-class Photojournalism sequence for four years.
		In the fall of 2005 Virga taught Advanced Photojournalism and Visual Issues in the Media in London for Syracuse University's study abroad program before coming back to South Florida.
	com.miami.edu /Faculty-Staff/Virga.htm (359 words)

	TLB Forums: Tarptent Virga???????????? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Moving down in size to a Virga is not going to lighten your pack all that much, and condensation will probably be a little trickier because of the smaller space.
		Based on my brief use of the Virga 2, I don't think that any of these concerns will be much of an issue.
		Yeah, it was the Virga 1, but as a non-trekking pole carrier it only costs me an extra 8 or 9 ounces to carry the CloudBurst and live in luxury.
	www.backpacking.net /forums1/showflat.php?Number=79667 (1068 words)

	Virga - AOL Music
		In meteorology, virga is precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground.
		Virga is any form or precipitation that doesn?t reach the ground.
		Virga is defined as wisps or streaks of water or ice particles falling out of a...
	music.aol.com /artist.adp?artist_id=840110 (129 words)

	What Is Virga? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Virga, which is spelled v-i-r-g-a, is pretty common and you’ve probably seen it but didn’t know it had a special name.
		Mostly in the summer, virga can be seen falling away in streaks from the bottom of one of those puffy gray and white cumulus clouds on a crisp afternoon.
		So virga is technically virgin precipitation and its easy to spot its wispy form seemingly hanging in the air beneath its parent cloud.
	www.weathernotebook.org /transcripts/1998/02/20.html (312 words)

	BackpackingLight.com Forum: Virga vs. Jam, or any Chicago ULers out there?
		Only the Virga was in stock, but the size large seems to be long enough (my 'back' is aprox.
		Right weight, but needless to say, a Virga packed with one pointy weight and some newspaper fails to make a virtual frame, and is ungodly uncomfortable.
		Feel free to chime in with thoughts on virga vs. jam, packs for tall folks, etc. And if you live in Chicago and want to show me how you pack I'd be happy to buy you a beer.
	www.backpackinglight.com /cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display?forum_thread_id=537 (301 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rain or snow that evaporates as it falls into a layer of dry air near the earth’s surface is called virga.
		While virga can happen at any time during the year, it is most common during winter, when low-level air is very dry.
		As falling precipitation evaporates it moistens the dry air from the top down.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/tg/wvirga/wvirga.htm (103 words)

	MMR.BE - Virga Backup System - Concept
		VIRGA is a concept that primarily aims at offering a system that guarantees you a high connection availability to your mainframes.
		VIRGA OnBoard Backup System : This is the system that allows you to use more sessions on a VTD/8 Optimo board than defined by the VTD/8 license code.
		VIRGA Clustering System : Up to 4 different VTD/8 gateways in a cluster can share parts of their configuration, and allows any user to be re-routed automatically to another gateway if his 'home-gateway' is unreachable or full.
	www.mmr.be /products/virga.asp (157 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Neum
		In accordance with that a scandicus is a virga præpunctis; a climacus, a virga subpunctis;
		Thus the virga appears in two forms, one slightly curved to the right and vanishing at the top, the other straighter and with a thickening at the top.
		Thus at the end of the Alleluia neuma it joins the virga to form a clivis, and at the end of the neuma on nobis the podatus of the MS.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10765b.htm (5555 words)

	Hard Plastic Virga Lollipop - Blue Hair
		Virga made a darling series of doll in the fifties called "Lolly-Pop" dolls.
		Each doll in the series had a pretty pastel shade of hair with a dress to match.
		As with all Virga dolls, their heads seem a bit wobbly.
	www.dollinfo.com /Store/dolls/virgalollibl.htm (415 words)

	Granite Gear Virga Review at Backpacking Light
		The Granite Gear Virga Backpack combines an innovative compression system with a well-padded harness to create a frameless pack capable of comfortably carrying 25 pounds.
		The Granite Gear Virga’s suspension system is built on shoulder straps that are more comfortable than those used in most ultralight frameless backpacks, and a light webbing hipbelt.
		The Granite Gear Virga is made with more rugged fabrics than many packs in its weight class, and thus, is suitable for backpacking, off-trail scrambling, and even alpine climbing.
	www.backpackinglight.com /cgi-bin/backpackinglight/granite_gear_virga_review.html (321 words)

	Emergency Press
		It's pretty rare when something comes out complete and "finished" for me, in part because I generally work with a pencil and paper first and invariably the line breaks, order, and word choice automatically change once the piece begins to be re-drafted from holograph to typescript.
		SZ: The desired effect should be inherent in the title: virga is the meteorological term for rain that evaporates before it hits the ground.
		Here I wrote a few parts of what would eventually become Virga while attempting to compose a 21 line poem every day for a year, which ended upon my matriculation in the MFA program at Columbia University in the fall of 1994.
	www.webdelsol.com /emergency/interview_zieher.htm (1619 words)

	Backpacker Magazine - Granite Gear Virga
		Thanks to load-lifters and a sternum strap, the Virga's ride is very stable, ideal for high-angle jaunts, skiing, and fastpacking.
		The Virga lacks a top lid (as do most ultralight packs), but testers agreed the crossing straps--secure for small loads and accommodating for bulky items--form the best closure system of all models tested.
		The reinforced, 420-denier nylon/polyester packbag withstood all abuse (not surprising considering the Virga is the little brother of the tough-as-nails, Editors' Choice Award-winning Vapor Trail and Nimbus Ozone; see April 2003).
	www.backpacker.com /gear/article/0,1023,6448,00.html (257 words)

	NWS Norman, Oklahoma - Weather Glossary for Storm Spotters
		*Virga - Streaks or wisps of precipitation falling from a cloud but evaporating before reaching the ground.
		In certain cases, shafts of virga may precede a microburst; see dry microburst.
		V Notch - A radar reflectivity signature seen as a V-shaped notch in the downwind part of a thunderstorm echo.
	www.srh.noaa.gov /oun/severewx/glossary4.php (4121 words)

	Virga
		Virga fallstreaks under altocumulus in combination with sunrise or sunset can be very beautiful.
		It is sometimes not clear whether a fallstreak is virga or praecipitatio, since a virga fallstreak usually consists of snow, and when this melts into drizzle, it may be hardly visible.
		Virga fallstreaks from altocumulus or higher clouds rarely reach ground, however.
	www.weatherscapes.com /album.php?cat=clouds&subcat=virga (110 words)

	komo news \| Ask Steve : What Is Virga? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Virga occurs when you have a layer of drier air near the surface.
		As the rain falls out of the cloud, it reaches this dry air layer, and just evaporates back into water vapor before it can reach the ground -- although if you're under an area of virga, you'll still likely notice a drop or two that survived the fall.
		Virga is quite common in desert areas, where the humidities are generally so low, that most of the rain will just evaporate right out.
	www.komotv.com /asksteve/story.asp?id=25026 (235 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: virga: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sun of Suns (Virga) by Karl Schroeder (Hardcover - 3 Oct 2006)
		Virga by J. Berglund (Paperback - 19 Dec 1998)
		Virga Tears: The True Story of a Soldier's Sojourn Back to Vietnam by James H. Fallon (Paperback - Sep 2001)
	www.amazon.co.uk /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=virga&tag=545-21&index=books&page=1 (474 words)

	Granite Gear Virga reviews and information - Trailspace.com
		The Virga is a daypack made by Granite Gear.
		The Virga has fixed (not interchangeable), nicely padded shoulder straps and a 1.5in.
		Virga Ultra Light Packer Backpack 3200cu in Short.
	www.trailspace.com /gear/granite-gear/virga (400 words)

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