Light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity)

Usage examples of virga.

It turns out that Mahallan is not from Virga, but is a visitor from the strange universe outside the giant balloon.

They recover the map without incident, and the expeditionary force embarks for the inner regions of Virga, an area known as the principalities of Candesce.

But her own conviction seems weak, and at last she admits that she herself is in Virga against her will.

Artificial Nature, and in penance she has been sent into Virga on a mission whose details she is afraid--or ashamed--to reveal.

Those designs are still available to anyone willing to leave Virga to find them.

This night, technologies long banned in Virga would become possible here again.

Chaison had caught a rope and found himself dangling over the infinite airs of Virga, watching while the aft half of the dreadnaught fell away and wrenched itself to pieces with explosion after explosion.

In some ways it looked right: the endless vistas of Virga were blocked by some sort of structure.

The energy needed to keep it turning in the unstable airs of Virga would beggar any normal nation.

Lacking any gravity save that made by its own inner air, Virga was a weightless environment whose extent could easily seem infinite to those who lived within it.

The curve ended in a broad gallery above and beyond which the winds of Virga shuddered.

With that they could have ruled all of Virga from the sun of suns itself!

The principalities are mobilizing, and agents of the Virga Home Guard have been seen nosing around, even here.

As a foreigner from beyond Virga, hence something of a curiosity, she is allowed to wander as she pleases.

She committed crimes against the systems of Artificial Nature, and in penance she has been sent into Virga on a mission whose details she is afraid--or ashamed--to reveal.