Posted on 03/02/2010 4:22:13 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Residents of a small outback Australian town have been left speechless after fish began falling from the sky.
Hundreds of spangled perch bombarded the 650 residents of Lajamanu, shocking local Christine Balmer, who was walking home when the strange 'weather' started.
She said: 'These fish fell in their hundreds and hundreds all over the place. The locals were running around everywhere picking them up.
'The fish were all alive when they hit the ground so they would have been alive when they were up there flying around the sky.
'When I told my family, who live in another part of Australia, about the fish falling from the sky, they thought I'd lost the plot.
'But no, I haven't lost my marbles. All I can say is that I'm thankful that it didn't rain crocodiles!'
Meterologists say the incident was probably caused by a tornado. It is common for tornados to suck up water and fish from rivers and drop them hundreds of miles away.
Mark Kersemakers from the Australian Bureau of Meterology said: 'Once they get up into the weather system, they are pretty much frozen and, after some time, they are released.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Water spout!
A scientific explanation? That’s no fun. More likely an Aboriginal shaman having a bad day.
Anyone remember the movie The Last Wave? Which began with huge hailstones falling from a cloudless brilliant blue sky...somewhere in the Outback.
It’s Obama’s replacement for nuclear weapons.
He calls it the Perchinator 2000.
I want some of what they’re smoking !
Its rainin cats and dogs and fish
Hope there’s no creel limit.
Karl Rove’s fishing machine needs a bit of work.
There’s something very fishy about this story.
(I can't believe I posted that)
windsorknot beat you to it!
;0) Wasn’t this just a movie.....Meatballs or something?
Are they edible? At the price of seafood this could be a good thing! One does wonder tho- there are tornadoes down here all the time, yet it never rains shrimp, crab, crawfish or oysters. I have the crab boil pot ready if it ever does.
Not all that rare. Usually frogs, tadpoles, minnows.
I probably read of such an account about once a year.
Actually, it’s one of the plagues Gaia will visit upon us for causing Global Warming....
Hundreds of spangled perch bombarded the 650 residents of Lajamanu, shocking local Christine Balmer, who was walking home when the strange 'weather' started... "These fish fell in their hundreds and hundreds all over the place. The locals were running around everywhere picking them up. The fish were all alive when they hit the ground so they would have been alive when they were up there flying around the sky... All I can say is that I'm thankful that it didn't rain crocodiles!" Meterologists say the incident was probably caused by a tornado. It is common for tornados to suck up water and fish from rivers and drop them hundreds of miles away. Mark Kersemakers from the Australian Bureau of Meterology said: 'Once they get up into the weather system, they are pretty much frozen and, after some time, they are released.'Obviously Karl Rove and George Bush are screwing around with the weather control machine again. Thanks Free ThinkerNY.
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I don’t know about alive when they hit the ground but all of them in the bucket are croakers.
I can just imagine making a claim on your homeowners insurance for fish damage to the roof.
Reports of strange objects falling from the sky are numerous and varied. People have reported raining squid, worms and fish. Fish are actually the most common creatures to fall from the sky, for obvious reasons — they’re very lightweight, and they’re the most common water inhabitants [source: BBC]. But waterspouts can pick up heavier objects, too.
Waterspout winds can spin at amazing speeds — up to 200 mph [source: CMMAP]. These types of wind speeds can pick up a very wide range of cargo because they can suck up objects from up to 3 feet (1 meter) below the surface, and the low-pressure core they form is an extremely powerful vacuum compared with the speeding winds surrounding it. Large water birds have also fallen from the sky. At least one source reports a sailboat coming down with rain [source: CMMAP]. Presumably a waterspout can pick up a few things when it hits land, too, because it has also been known to rain tomatoes and coal [source: CMMAP].
http://science.howstuffworks.com/rain-frog.htm/printable
Methinks that what goes up - must come down.
:’) Thanks FN.
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