Marilyn's Photos - Aug 23 2026 - Spritzing to Sprinkles
It was spritzing earlier but it has turned to sprinkles and trending to drizzles. Spritz is not a formal meteorological term, just informal. Sprinkles is - very light, scattered drops that fall in small amounts. Moving onto drizzles, they are very tiny, fine water drops smaller than 0.5 mm that seem to float in the air. I think we're going to miss the floaty stuff, and move on to showers - rain that starts and stops quickly and changes in strength. There are no forecasts of a downpour - a sudden very heavy rush of water that falls fast. What we had in Niagara 2 weeks ago is called torrential rain (deluge) and is extreme, heavy rain that can cause floods very quickly.
What about the phenomenon known as Virga: precipitation begins as snow or rain from the base of clouds. But it passes through a thick layer of warm, dry air, which causes the precipitation to evaporate before it reaches the ground. It is also called phantom rain or a dry storm. This is more common in arid western climates. They look like jellyfish - so the common name is often jellyfish clouds.
It looks like a 9 to 5 day of rain in Grimsby and then all clear.
Here's a happy cloud sky in Niagara around this time of year. I haven't found any Sunflower fields like this one so far. They get gobbled up by the great harvesting machines.
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