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Rain of animals

March 20, 2023

A rain of animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky. Such occurrences have been reported in many countries throughout history.[1] One hypothesis is that tornadic waterspouts sometimes pick up creatures such as fish or frogs, and carry them for up to several miles.[1][2] However, this aspect of the phenomenon has never been witnessed by scientists.[3]

A rain of fish was recorded in Singapore in 1861, when during three days of torrential rain numerous fish were found in puddles
Raining snakes, 1680.

History

Rain of flightless animals and things has been reported throughout history.[1] In the first century AD, Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder documented storms of frogs and fish.[4] In 1794, French soldiers saw toads fall from the sky during heavy rain at Lalain, near the French city of Lille.[5] Rural inhabitants in Yoro, Honduras claim 'fish rain' happens there every summer, a phenomenon they call Lluvia de Peces.[6]

Explanations

 
Tornadoes and waterspouts may lift up animals into the air and deposit them miles away

French physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) was among the first scientists to take seriously accounts of raining animals. Addressing the Society of Natural Science, Ampère suggested that at times frogs and toads roam the countryside in large numbers, and that violent winds could pick them up and carry them great distances.[3]

After a reported rain of fish in Singapore in 1861, French naturalist Francis de Laporte de Castelnau speculated that a migration of walking catfish had taken place, dragging themselves over land from one puddle to another, following the rain.[7]

The likeliest explanation for many of the supposed cases is that there is no falling happening at all and the animals are driven along by winds or a deluge of some sort.[8] This explanation also accounts for the prevalence of reports that only a single species or type of animal is ever reported raining from the sky.

A current scientific hypothesis involves tornadic waterspouts: a tornado that forms over the water.[1][9][10][11] Under this hypothesis, a tornadic waterspout transports animals to relatively high altitudes, carrying them over large distances. This hypothesis appears supported by the type of animals in these rains: small and light, usually aquatic,[12] and by the suggestion that the rain of animals is often preceded by a storm. However, the theory does not account for how all the animals involved in each individual incident would be from only one species, and not a group of similarly sized animals from a single area.[13] Further, the theory also does not account for a genuine tornadic waterspout not actually sucking objects up and carrying them rather than flinging objects out to the sides.[14]

 
Doppler Image from Texas showing the collision of a thunderstorm with a group of bats in flight. The color red indicates the animals flying into the storm.

In the case of birds, storms may overcome a flock in flight, especially in times of migration. The Doppler image to the right shows an example wherein a group of bats is overtaken by a thunderstorm.[15] In the image, the bats are in the red zone, which corresponds to winds moving away from the radar station, and enter into a mesocyclone associated with a tornado (in green). These events may occur easily with birds, which can get killed in flight, or stunned and then fall (unlike flightless creatures, which first have to be lifted into the air by an outside force). Sometimes this happens in large groups, for instance, the blackbirds falling from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas, United States on December 31, 2010.[16] It is common for birds to become disoriented (for example, because of bad weather or fireworks) and collide with objects such as trees or buildings, killing them or stunning them into falling to their death. The number of blackbirds killed in Beebe is not spectacular considering the size of their congregations, which can be in the millions.[17] The event in Beebe, however, captured the imagination and led to more reports in the media of birds falling from the sky across the globe, such as in Sweden and Italy,[18] though many scientists claim such mass deaths are common occurrences but usually go unnoticed.[19] In contrast, it is harder to find a plausible explanation for rains of terrestrial animals.

Some cases are thought to be caused by birds dropping fish. With regard to a documented rain of fish that occurred on December 29, 2021 in Texarkana, Texas, independent researchers Sharon A. Hill and Paul Cropper proposed that the fish had been dropped or possibly regurgitated by passing birds.[20] The theory found some favor with airport workers who had cleaned up the fish; they noted that there were birds in the area around the same time, and the fish "were kind of chewed up." In June 2022 around the San Francisco coast, a boom of anchovies is likely to be the cause of fair weather falling of fish from birds' mouths, such as pelicans.[21]

Occurrences

The following list is a selection of examples.

Fish

 
1555 engraving of rain of fish

Spiders

Frogs and toads

Others

Examples in popular culture

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Can it rain frogs, fish or other objects". Library of Congress. August 26, 2010.
  2. ^ How can it rain fish? BBC News 20 August 2004.
  3. ^ a b When It Rains Animals: The Science of True Weather Weirdness. Alasdair Wilkins. March 21, 2012.
  4. ^ "How can it rain fish?". August 20, 2004 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  5. ^ Rivas, Orsy Campos (November 7, 2004). "Lo que la lluvia regala a Yoro (discusses a rain of fishes that occurs annually in Honduras)". Hablemos.
  6. ^ Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences. Vol. 52. 1861. pp. 880–881.
  7. ^ Nobel, Justin (2014-03-18). "When Animals Fall from the Sky". Modern Farmer. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  8. ^ Strange Rain: Why Fish, Frogs and Golf Balls Fall From the Skies. Sarah Zielinski, Smithsonian Magazine. 8 September 2015.
  9. ^ What is animal rain phenomenon and how is it explained?. World Weather Online. 19 August 2014.
  10. ^ When It Rains Animals: The Science of True Weather Weirdness. Alasdair Wilkins, iO9. 21 March 2012.
  11. ^ Angwin, Richard (July 15, 2003). "Wiltshire weather". BBC.
  12. ^ . Scribol.
  13. ^ Dunning, Brian (September 8, 2009). "It's Raining Frogs and Fish". Skeptoid.
  14. ^ "Bat-eating Supercell". National Weather Service. March 19, 2006.
  15. ^ "More than 1,000 blackbirds fall out of Arkansas sky". BBC News. 2 January 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  16. ^ "Why Are Birds Falling From the Sky?". National Geographic. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
  17. ^ . "AOL". 7 January 2011. Archived from the original on 9 January 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  18. ^ "Fact Check: Mass bird, fish deaths occur regularly". "Associated Press". 7 January 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  19. ^ "Researchers figured out why fish fell from the sky in Texarkana, and it's pretty gross". Dallas News. 2022-06-22. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
  20. ^ Moore, Sam (2022-06-28). "Fish are reportedly raining from the sky across San Francisco". SFGATE. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  21. ^ McAtee, Waldo L. (May 1917). "Showers of Organic Matter" (PDF). Monthly Weather Review. 45 (5): 223. Bibcode:1917MWRv...45..217M. doi:10.1175/1520-0493(1917)45<217:soom>2.0.co;2. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  22. ^ "Rained Fish", AP report in the Lowell (Mass.) Sun, May 16, 1900, p4
  23. ^ "Canada Day weather through the years", reported in The Weather Network : [1] 2012-06-30 at the Wayback Machine, June 27, 2012
  24. ^ . Archived from the original on December 10, 2009.
  25. ^ "BBC - Shropshire - Weird Shropshire - Fish shower". www.bbc.co.uk.
  26. ^ "Fish rain takes Kerala villagers by surprise". The Financial Express. February 14, 2008.
  27. ^ "Fish Rain", reported in the India : [2], October 24, 2009
  28. ^ "It's raining fish in Northern Territory", reported in news.com.au : [3], February 28, 2010
  29. ^ Lani Nami Buan (January 15, 2012). "It's raining fish! It's normal". GMA News. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  30. ^ Jereco O. Paloma (January 15, 2012). "Agusan's 'rain of fish' natural although unusual". SunStar Davao. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  31. ^ "Fish Rain", reported in the India : [4], September 12, 2013
  32. ^ "Fish rain down on Sri Lanka village, reported in https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia : [5], 6 May 2014
  33. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So3c2GSXYs0. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)[dead link]
  34. ^ Villagers wake up to find fish in fields!, The Times of India, August 17, 2015
  35. ^ "Fish rain in diredawa Ethiopia.", http://mereja.com/news/1080799
  36. ^ "Fish rain in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh"., One India Telugu, May 20, 2016
  37. ^ "Catfish Falls From Sky and Strikes Woman in Face Near Art Museum, Philadelphia"., Philadelphia Enquirer, September 9, 2016
  38. ^ "No lo has visto todo aún: llovieron peces en Tampico". Excélsior. September 27, 2017.
  39. ^ "How 100 fish rained down on an Oroville school remains a mystery". KTVU FOX 2. June 23, 2017.
  40. ^ "'Fish rain' falls on Sri Lankan village | The Star". www.thestar.com.my.
  41. ^ "Fish fall from the sky during rainstorm in eastern Texas; KWTX". www.kwtx.com.
  42. ^ a b Spiders Rain From Skies In Australian Town Of Goulburn, Huffington Post UK
  43. ^ "Designer registra 'chuva de aranhas' em cidade do interior do Paraná". Globo.com. 8 February 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  44. ^ Demetriou, Danielle (2009-06-10). "Sky 'rains tadpoles' over Japan". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  45. ^ "Szemtanúk szerint békaeső hullott a településre". szoljon.hu. 2010-06-21. Retrieved 2010-06-21.
  46. ^ [How it was that I experienced a rain of frogs and toads] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2017-04-04.
  47. ^ Fort, Charles (1919). "Ch. 4". The Book of the Damned. sacred-texts.com. p. 48.
  48. ^ . WAFB Channel 9. 7 July 2007. Archived from the original on 14 July 2007. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
  49. ^ "青岛下"海鲜"？真实情况并不好笑". nwang.net/article/1528966769371001/. 14 May 2018. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

Further reading

  • Bajkov, A.D. Do fish fall from the sky? Science, v. 109, April 22, 1949: 402.
  • Bourchier, Daniel. “It’s raining fish…no really.” Sunday Territorian, Australia, February 28, 2010.
  • Branley, Franklyn M. It's raining cats and dogs: all kinds of weather and why we have it. Illustrated by True Kelley. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1987. 112 p. (Juvenile)
  • Cerveny, Randall S. Freaks of the storm: from flying cows to stealing thunder, the world's strangest true weather stories. New York, Thunder's Mouth Press, c2006. 371 p.
  • Chandler, Barb. Froggy weather. Weather-wise, v. 57, Jan./Feb. 2004: 42.
  • Christian, Spencer and Antonia Felix. Can it really rain frogs?: the world's strangest weather events. New York, Wiley, 1997. 121 p. (Juvenile).
  • Corliss, William. Tornados, dark days, anomalous precipitation, and related weather phenomena: a catalog of geophysical anomalies. Glen Arm, MD: Sourcebook Project, c1983. 196 p.
  • Dennis, Jerry. It's raining frogs and fishes: four seasons of natural phenomena and oddities of the sky. New York, HarperCollins, c1992. 323 p.
  • Englebert, Phillis. The complete weather resource. Detroit, UXL, c1997–2000. 4 v.
  • “Frogs fall from the sky.” Herald Sun, Melbourne, Australia, June 8, 2005. p. 2.
  • Gray, J. E. The shower of fishes. Zoologist; a monthly journal of natural history, v. 17, 1859: 6540–6541
  • Gudger, E. W. Do fish fall from the sky with rain? Scientific Monthly, v. 29, December 1929: 523–527.
  • McAtee, Waldo L. Showers of organic matter. Monthly Weather Review, v. 45, May 1917: 217–224.
  • Posey, Carl A. The living earth book of wind and weather. Pleasantville, NY, Reader's Digest Association, c1994. 224 p.
  • Waterspouts. In McGraw-Hill concise encyclopedia of science and technology. 5th edition. New York, McGraw-Hill, c2005. pp. 2369–2370.

External links

 
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  • Mysterious Falls from the Sky. A review on the American perspective.
  • 10 Craziest Things To Fall From the Sky
  • Fafrotskies. (An acronym for falls from the skies)

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A rain of animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky Such occurrences have been reported in many countries throughout history 1 One hypothesis is that tornadic waterspouts sometimes pick up creatures such as fish or frogs and carry them for up to several miles 1 2 However this aspect of the phenomenon has never been witnessed by scientists 3 A rain of fish was recorded in Singapore in 1861 when during three days of torrential rain numerous fish were found in puddles Raining snakes 1680 Contents 1 History 2 Explanations 3 Occurrences 3 1 Fish 3 2 Spiders 3 3 Frogs and toads 3 4 Others 4 Examples in popular culture 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksHistory EditRain of flightless animals and things has been reported throughout history 1 In the first century AD Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder documented storms of frogs and fish 4 In 1794 French soldiers saw toads fall from the sky during heavy rain at Lalain near the French city of Lille 5 Rural inhabitants in Yoro Honduras claim fish rain happens there every summer a phenomenon they call Lluvia de Peces 6 Explanations Edit Tornadoes and waterspouts may lift up animals into the air and deposit them miles away French physicist Andre Marie Ampere 1775 1836 was among the first scientists to take seriously accounts of raining animals Addressing the Society of Natural Science Ampere suggested that at times frogs and toads roam the countryside in large numbers and that violent winds could pick them up and carry them great distances 3 After a reported rain of fish in Singapore in 1861 French naturalist Francis de Laporte de Castelnau speculated that a migration of walking catfish had taken place dragging themselves over land from one puddle to another following the rain 7 The likeliest explanation for many of the supposed cases is that there is no falling happening at all and the animals are driven along by winds or a deluge of some sort 8 This explanation also accounts for the prevalence of reports that only a single species or type of animal is ever reported raining from the sky A current scientific hypothesis involves tornadic waterspouts a tornado that forms over the water 1 9 10 11 Under this hypothesis a tornadic waterspout transports animals to relatively high altitudes carrying them over large distances This hypothesis appears supported by the type of animals in these rains small and light usually aquatic 12 and by the suggestion that the rain of animals is often preceded by a storm However the theory does not account for how all the animals involved in each individual incident would be from only one species and not a group of similarly sized animals from a single area 13 Further the theory also does not account for a genuine tornadic waterspout not actually sucking objects up and carrying them rather than flinging objects out to the sides 14 Doppler Image from Texas showing the collision of a thunderstorm with a group of bats in flight The color red indicates the animals flying into the storm In the case of birds storms may overcome a flock in flight especially in times of migration The Doppler image to the right shows an example wherein a group of bats is overtaken by a thunderstorm 15 In the image the bats are in the red zone which corresponds to winds moving away from the radar station and enter into a mesocyclone associated with a tornado in green These events may occur easily with birds which can get killed in flight or stunned and then fall unlike flightless creatures which first have to be lifted into the air by an outside force Sometimes this happens in large groups for instance the blackbirds falling from the sky in Beebe Arkansas United States on December 31 2010 16 It is common for birds to become disoriented for example because of bad weather or fireworks and collide with objects such as trees or buildings killing them or stunning them into falling to their death The number of blackbirds killed in Beebe is not spectacular considering the size of their congregations which can be in the millions 17 The event in Beebe however captured the imagination and led to more reports in the media of birds falling from the sky across the globe such as in Sweden and Italy 18 though many scientists claim such mass deaths are common occurrences but usually go unnoticed 19 In contrast it is harder to find a plausible explanation for rains of terrestrial animals Some cases are thought to be caused by birds dropping fish With regard to a documented rain of fish that occurred on December 29 2021 in Texarkana Texas independent researchers Sharon A Hill and Paul Cropper proposed that the fish had been dropped or possibly regurgitated by passing birds 20 The theory found some favor with airport workers who had cleaned up the fish they noted that there were birds in the area around the same time and the fish were kind of chewed up In June 2022 around the San Francisco coast a boom of anchovies is likely to be the cause of fair weather falling of fish from birds mouths such as pelicans 21 Occurrences EditThe following list is a selection of examples Fish Edit 1555 engraving of rain of fish Singapore February 22 1861 22 Tarai Nepal May 15 1900 23 Moose Jaw Saskatchewan Canada July 1 1903 24 Marksville Louisiana October 23 1947 25 Ilorin Kwara State Nigeria May 19 1993 Knighton Powys Wales 18 August 2004 26 Kerala State India February 12 2008 27 Bhanwad Jamnagar India October 24 2009 28 Lajamanu Northern Territory Australia February 25 and 26 2010 29 Loreto Agusan del Sur Philippines January 13 2012 30 31 IIT Madras Chennai Tamil Nadu India September 12 2013 32 The annual Lluvia de Peces in Yoro Honduras Chilaw Sri Lanka 6 May 2014 33 Nandigama Andhra Pradesh India 19 June 2015 34 Guntur Andhra Pradesh India 16 August 2015 35 Dire Dawa Ethiopia 20 January 2016 36 Pathapatnam Srikakulam district Andhra Pradesh 19 May 2016 37 Philadelphia Pennsylvania 9 September 2016 38 Mexico Tamaulipas Tampico 26 September 2017 39 Oroville California 16 May 2017 40 Jaffna Sri Lanka 7 November 2017 41 Texarkana Texas 30 December 2021 42 Spiders Edit Albury Australia 1974 43 Santo Antonio da Platina Brazil February 3 2013 44 Goulburn Australia 15 May 2015 43 Frogs and toads Edit Ishikawa Prefecture Japan June 2009 occurrences reported throughout the month 45 Rakoczifalva Hungary 18 20 June 2010 twice 46 Cabo Polonio Uruguay Since 2011 twice 47 Others Edit Jellyfish Bath England 1894 48 Worms Jennings Louisiana July 11 2007 49 Various marine animals including octopuses seashells and starfish Qingdao Shandong Province China June 13 2018 50 Examples in popular culture EditMagnolia Sharknado film series Watchmen TV series Fuego gris also here at the article s Spanish version JoJo s Bizarre Adventure Part 6 Stone Ocean manga anime series Fargo TV series See also EditBlood rain Flying fish Lluvia de Peces Honduras Fish rain Red rain in Kerala Star jelly Raining cats and dogs Kentucky meat showerReferences Edit a b c d Can it rain frogs fish or other objects Library of Congress August 26 2010 How can it rain fish BBC News 20 August 2004 a b When It Rains Animals The Science of True Weather Weirdness Alasdair Wilkins March 21 2012 How can it rain fish August 20 2004 via news bbc co uk Hasler Joe Weird Stories of Objects Falling From the Sky Explained www popularmechanics com Retrieved 31 October 2017 Rivas Orsy Campos November 7 2004 Lo que la lluvia regala a Yoro discusses a rain of fishes that occurs annually in Honduras Hablemos Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des seances de l Academie des sciences Vol 52 1861 pp 880 881 Nobel Justin 2014 03 18 When Animals Fall from the Sky Modern Farmer Retrieved 2019 07 10 Strange Rain Why Fish Frogs and Golf Balls Fall From the Skies Sarah Zielinski Smithsonian Magazine 8 September 2015 What is animal rain phenomenon and how is it explained World Weather Online 19 August 2014 When It Rains Animals The Science of True Weather Weirdness Alasdair Wilkins iO9 21 March 2012 Angwin Richard July 15 2003 Wiltshire weather BBC When Animals Rain From The Sky Scribol Dunning Brian September 8 2009 It s Raining Frogs and Fish Skeptoid Bat eating Supercell National Weather Service March 19 2006 More than 1 000 blackbirds fall out of Arkansas sky BBC News 2 January 2011 Retrieved 2 January 2011 Why Are Birds Falling From the Sky National Geographic 6 January 2011 Retrieved 6 January 2011 Now It s Dead Doves Falling From Sky in Italy AOL 7 January 2011 Archived from the original on 9 January 2011 Retrieved 7 January 2011 Fact Check Mass bird fish deaths occur regularly Associated Press 7 January 2011 Retrieved 7 January 2011 Researchers figured out why fish fell from the sky in Texarkana and it s pretty gross Dallas News 2022 06 22 Retrieved 2022 06 22 Moore Sam 2022 06 28 Fish are reportedly raining from the sky across San Francisco SFGATE Retrieved 2022 06 30 McAtee Waldo L May 1917 Showers of Organic Matter PDF Monthly Weather Review 45 5 223 Bibcode 1917MWRv 45 217M doi 10 1175 1520 0493 1917 45 lt 217 soom gt 2 0 co 2 Retrieved 2009 01 26 Rained Fish AP report in the Lowell Mass Sun May 16 1900 p4 Canada Day weather through the years reported in The Weather Network 1 Archived 2012 06 30 at the Wayback Machine June 27 2012 Greg Forbes Spooky Weather The Weather Channel Posted October 27 2005 Archived from the original on December 10 2009 BBC Shropshire Weird Shropshire Fish shower www bbc co uk Fish rain takes Kerala villagers by surprise The Financial Express February 14 2008 Fish Rain reported in the India 2 October 24 2009 It s raining fish in Northern Territory reported in news com au 3 February 28 2010 Lani Nami Buan January 15 2012 It s raining fish It s normal GMA News Retrieved January 16 2012 Jereco O Paloma January 15 2012 Agusan s rain of fish natural although unusual SunStar Davao Retrieved January 16 2012 Fish Rain reported in the India 4 September 12 2013 Fish rain down on Sri Lanka village reported in https www bbc com news world asia 5 6 May 2014 https www youtube com watch v So3c2GSXYs0 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty title help CS1 maint url status link dead link Villagers wake up to find fish in fields The Times of India August 17 2015 Fish rain in diredawa Ethiopia http mereja com news 1080799 Fish rain in Srikakulam district Andhra Pradesh One India Telugu May 20 2016 Catfish Falls From Sky and Strikes Woman in Face Near Art Museum Philadelphia Philadelphia Enquirer September 9 2016 No lo has visto todo aun llovieron peces en Tampico Excelsior September 27 2017 How 100 fish rained down on an Oroville school remains a mystery KTVU FOX 2 June 23 2017 Fish rain falls on Sri Lankan village The Star www thestar com my Fish fall from the sky during rainstorm in eastern Texas KWTX www kwtx com a b Spiders Rain From Skies In Australian Town Of Goulburn Huffington Post UK Designer registra chuva de aranhas em cidade do interior do Parana Globo com 8 February 2013 Retrieved 9 February 2013 Demetriou Danielle 2009 06 10 Sky rains tadpoles over Japan Telegraph co uk Retrieved 2009 08 07 Szemtanuk szerint bekaeso hullott a telepulesre szoljon hu 2010 06 21 Retrieved 2010 06 21 Como fue que vivi una lluvia de ranas y sapos How it was that I experienced a rain of frogs and toads in Spanish Archived from the original on 2017 04 04 Fort Charles 1919 Ch 4 The Book of the Damned sacred texts com p 48 Worms Fall from the Sky in Jennings WAFB Channel 9 7 July 2007 Archived from the original on 14 July 2007 Retrieved 12 December 2008 青岛下 海鲜 真实情况并不好笑 nwang net article 1528966769371001 14 May 2018 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a access date requires url help Further reading EditBajkov A D Do fish fall from the sky Science v 109 April 22 1949 402 Bourchier Daniel It s raining fish no really Sunday Territorian Australia February 28 2010 Branley Franklyn M It s raining cats and dogs all kinds of weather and why we have it Illustrated by True Kelley Boston Houghton Mifflin 1987 112 p Juvenile Cerveny Randall S Freaks of the storm from flying cows to stealing thunder the world s strangest true weather stories New York Thunder s Mouth Press c2006 371 p Chandler Barb Froggy weather Weather wise v 57 Jan Feb 2004 42 Christian Spencer and Antonia Felix Can it really rain frogs the world s strangest weather events New York Wiley 1997 121 p Juvenile Corliss William Tornados dark days anomalous precipitation and related weather phenomena a catalog of geophysical anomalies Glen Arm MD Sourcebook Project c1983 196 p Dennis Jerry It s raining frogs and fishes four seasons of natural phenomena and oddities of the sky New York HarperCollins c1992 323 p Englebert Phillis The complete weather resource Detroit UXL c1997 2000 4 v Frogs fall from the sky Herald Sun Melbourne Australia June 8 2005 p 2 Gray J E The shower of fishes Zoologist a monthly journal of natural history v 17 1859 6540 6541 Gudger E W Do fish fall from the sky with rain Scientific Monthly v 29 December 1929 523 527 McAtee Waldo L Showers of organic matter Monthly Weather Review v 45 May 1917 217 224 Posey Carl A The living earth book of wind and weather Pleasantville NY Reader s Digest Association c1994 224 p Waterspouts In McGraw Hill concise encyclopedia of science and technology 5th edition New York McGraw Hill c2005 pp 2369 2370 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Raining animals Raining cats and dogs Mysterious Falls from the Sky A review on the American perspective 10 Craziest Things To Fall From the Sky Fafrotskies An acronym for falls from the skies Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rain of animals amp oldid 1145639901, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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