Wouldn't have believed it either, but here's the article.
Dropping by ... mystery fish
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BAFFLED residents in a remote town have been left dumbstruck - after it rained FISH for two days.
Locals in Lajamanu, Oz, have had hundreds of small white fish tumbling from the heavens 326 MILES from the nearest river.
Many of the fish were still alive when they hit the ground but no one knows where they came from.
Local Christine Balmer said: "I haven't lost my marbles. They fell from the sky everywhere. Locals were picking them up off the footie oval."
The fish are believed to be common spangled perch.
Weather experts say they could have been sucked up by a thunderstorm before being dumped hundreds of miles away.
Mark Kersemakers, a senior forecaster at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, said: "It could have scooped the fish up 40,000 to 50,000 feet in the air.
"Once they get up into the system they are pretty much frozen. After some period they are released."
The town in Australia's Northern Territory has a population of 669. Last week's event was the third time it had happened - the fishy phenomenon also struck in 1974 and 2004.
Joe Ashley, 55, from Outback town Jabiru, said: "What if anything bigger falls out of the sky?
"It could be crocodiles. That would be real scary."
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2873181/Towns-battered-by-raining-fish.html#ixzz0gwpBZBto
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BAFFLED residents in a remote town have been left dumbstruck - after it rained FISH for two days.
Locals in Lajamanu, Oz, have had hundreds of small white fish tumbling from the heavens 326 MILES from the nearest river.
Many of the fish were still alive when they hit the ground but no one knows where they came from.
Local Christine Balmer said: "I haven't lost my marbles. They fell from the sky everywhere. Locals were picking them up off the footie oval."
The fish are believed to be common spangled perch.
Weather experts say they could have been sucked up by a thunderstorm before being dumped hundreds of miles away.
Mark Kersemakers, a senior forecaster at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, said: "It could have scooped the fish up 40,000 to 50,000 feet in the air.
"Once they get up into the system they are pretty much frozen. After some period they are released."
The town in Australia's Northern Territory has a population of 669. Last week's event was the third time it had happened - the fishy phenomenon also struck in 1974 and 2004.
Joe Ashley, 55, from Outback town Jabiru, said: "What if anything bigger falls out of the sky?
"It could be crocodiles. That would be real scary."
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2873181/Towns-battered-by-raining-fish.html#ixzz0gwpBZBto
