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Raining Fish?
Topic Started: May 30 2007, 10:01 AM (111 Views)
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How can it rain fish?

By Edward Green


The latest in a series of bizarre British weather phenomena is a rain of fish. It may sound like the stuff of legend, but such events are increasingly well documented.
On Wednesday, the village of Knighton, in Powys, was reported to have endured such a fishy deluge. Not a story easily believed - an odd site for a Biblical-style plague, one might think, perhaps to be followed by the waters of the nearby River Teme running red with blood?

But in fact, as the Met Office explains, such occurrences are not as uncommon as they may sound. Not only are they not quite the miraculous events that they seem, rains of fish - and other even more surprising objects - are reported with some frequency.

more - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3582802.stm

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Loveandbeloved,May 30 2007
08:01 AM
How can it rain fish?

By Edward Green


The latest in a series of bizarre British weather phenomena is a rain of fish. It may sound like the stuff of legend, but such events are increasingly well documented.
On Wednesday, the village of Knighton, in Powys, was reported to have endured such a fishy deluge. Not a story easily believed - an odd site for a Biblical-style plague, one might think, perhaps to be followed by the waters of the nearby River Teme running red with blood?

But in fact, as the Met Office explains, such occurrences are not as uncommon as they may sound. Not only are they not quite the miraculous events that they seem, rains of fish - and other even more surprising objects - are reported with some frequency.

more - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3582802.stm

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From what I understand, sea storms of hurricane type strength are capable of lofting schools of fish into the atmosphere and then raining them down upon towns/cities.

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Yes I've heard of this sort of thing happening before - OK not on a regular daily basis, but rather from 'time to time'.

Therefore it is nothing to worry about, although I dare say that for those who experience this sort of event might think otherwise! If it started to happen thousands of miles away from a coastal region (or lake with fish) *then* I would become more alarmed!

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