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Indonesia rains water, India even rains fish

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Rain water or ice is normal, but fish rain? Of course this is a rare event. Reports of raining fish came from Jagtial City, Telangana, India. The local Meteorological Department reported residents experienced a very rare ‘animal rain phenomenon’ when large numbers of fish fell from the sky.

A video shared to Twitter allegedly shows several fish raining down on the town. Shortly before, the region had experienced severe weather including flooding and heavy rains.

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While raining animals from the sky is an idiom (raining cats or anyone), raining animals is still a very rare phenomenon and can occur under the right conditions.

“This is a very rare phenomenon but you do occasionally get rain that brings small fish or frogs down from the sky,” a spokesman for the UK’s Met Office weather service said in a statement. IFL Science, Monday (18/7/2022).

How exactly does animal rain occur? Well, it’s all about being in the wrong place at the right time. Some creatures were lucky not to be carried away into the sky and crashed to the ground.

“In short, debris, or in this case small fish or frogs, can be caught as part of the upward airflow during the formation of a thunderstorm. These conditions create very strong updrafts as they develop over rivers or near the sea, so bring any small fish or frogs,” explained the UK’s Met Office.

In the near future, there was also a similar event in San Francisco Bay. This area experiences anchovy rain. Locals found anchovies strewn about in unusual places around the Bay Area, including sidewalks, driveways, rooftops and bus stops.

Experts believe the suspicious rainfall in their area recently is one of the effects of the surge in coastal anchovy populations.

The Otolith Geochemistry and Fish Ecology Laboratory in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology at the University of California, alerted the local community to an anchovy spawn in the lowlands of San Francisco Bay.

Experts believe that seabirds take advantage of this phenomenon of a surge in coastal anchovy populations, so that they drop fish from the sky like rain while enjoying the fish.

The scientists also noted a phenomenon called upwelling, in which colder, higher-density seawater moves from the ocean floor to the surface due to the movement of the wind above it.

“The current water temperature appears to be colder than usual and these conditions provide much-needed food for animals like anchovyseabirds and marine mammals,” said Adam Ratner, Associate Director of Conservation Education at the Marine Mammal Center.

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