Strange clouds look like jelly fish over Xenia

While these clouds almost look like jelly fish, Storm Center 7 Chief Meteorologist Eric Elwell said there is a simple explanation to what was happening. What you are seeing is called “virga.” In meteorology, virga is an observable streak or shaft of precipitation — rain, ice crystals, or snow — that falls from a cloud but evaporates or sublimates before reaching the ground.

In this photo, the sun was rising, which cast a unique color of the sunrise onto the falling precipitation from the cloud before it evaporated.