Last weekend, the fish rain passed twice over the small Australian town of Top End. Small white fish fell alive to the ground
As one of the eyewitnesses of what is happening, Christina Ballmer, said, hundreds of hundreds of white fish fell on the road, roofs of houses, trees, cars. “Thanks to such an amazing gift from heaven, we are fully supplied with food for the coming weeks,” Ballmer said. “It's good that there was no rain of crocodiles,” neighbors sarcastically, adding that the “ability to fly” was found in one of the species of perch that is found in northern Australia.
Ashley Patterson, a senior forecaster at the meteorological office, tried to explain the situation. "The geological conditions were ideal to spawn a small tornado in this area, where the seaside is on one side and Lake Argyll on the other," Patterson said. "However, we have not recorded any natural disasters." According to old-timers, fish falling from heaven is becoming almost a common occurrence here. So "fish precipitation" first fell in 1974, and in 2004 they passed again.
Livestock precipitation is common in Japan. In mid-June last year, tadpoles and frogs fell from the sky in Hiroshima. There is a river 150 meters from the block where the tadpoles were found. This prompted meteorologists to think that the "precipitation" could be caused by a tornado or hurricane. However, according to the prefecture's meteorological office, no such weather events have been observed in the area. A few days earlier, residents of Ishikawa prefecture found small fish scattered on the ground and porches in the morning - no more than three centimeters. And on June 4, about a hundred tadpoles fell to the ground near the city hall in the town of Nanao in the same Ishikawa prefecture. According to an employee of the mayor's office, tadpoles could be found on the ground and on the windshields of cars.
Scientists tried to explain this phenomenon by the fact that during small tornadoes, water is captured along with fry and eggs of fish and frogs. In warm clouds, animals quickly hatch and grow, and then "fall out" in the form of precipitation.
In August 1804, not far from Toulouse, on a clear, sunny day, a huge black cloud suddenly appeared in the sky, and from it tiny toads fell on the local residents.
On September 5, 1922, small toads rained down on the city of Chalon-sur-Saone in France for two days.
On September 23, 1973, tens of thousands of tiny toads literally fell from the sky onto the village of Brignoles in southern France.
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On October 24, 1987, an unusual rain of pink frogs fell over the town of Stroud.
In December 2002, in the village of Korona in northern Greece, "water and fish precipitation" fell. Residents were not taken aback and began to collect "gifts from heaven." Earlier, in June 2000, Ethiopian peasants observed a similar phenomenon, but unlike the Greeks, the Ethiopians were afraid: they considered it "God's punishment". In the same year, fish rain fell in Britain, in the state of Norfolk.
In 2003, in Dagestan, precipitation fell in the form of salt deposits. The cars parked in the open air were covered with a layer of salt. According to meteorologists, the reason for this was a cyclone that came from the regions of Turkey and Iran. The fine particles of sand and dust raised by a strong wind from the mined quarries in the territory of Dagestan mixed with water dust raised from the surface of the Caspian Sea. The mixture concentrated in clouds that moved to the coastal regions of Dagestan, where the unusual rain fell.
In 2004, an unusual rain of … excrement was falling in the south of France. “When this suspension, falling from the sky, has dried up, it can only be washed with a powerful jet of hot water,” the villagers complained. According to analyzes done in a local laboratory, these specks were the remains of mammalian feces. It has also been suggested that this could be the discharge of excrement from aircraft toilets. This version is supported by the fact that in the area of the village there is an air corridor to Montpellier.
In 2006, a fish rain hit a village in the southeastern state of Kerala in India. Live fish as thick as a pencil fell to the ground with the water. Similar specimens are found in local rivers and lakes.