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virga
Definição1
Vertical or inclined trails of precipitation (fallstreaks) attached to the undersurface of a cloud, which do not reach the Earth's surface. This supplementary feature occurs mostly with Cirrocumulus, Altocumulus, Altostratus, Nimbostratus, Stratocumulus, Cumulus and Cumulonimbus.
Fonte1
WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION. International Meteorological vocabulary. 2nd ed. Geneva, 1992. (WMO, n.182). Disponível em: < https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=220#.XeauGOhKiUk >. Acesso em: 11 dez. 2019.
Fonte2
WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION. International Meteorological vocabulary. 2nd ed. Geneva, 1992. (WMO, n.182). Disponível em: < https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=220#.XeauGOhKiUk >. Acesso em: 11 dez. 2019.
Contexto
Under the base of thundercloud, which is often very dark, there are frequently low, ragged clouds either merged with it or not, and precipitation sometimes in the form of virga.
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