Freak weather event, alive fish starts falling from sky; deets inside

The residents of a distant outback settlement in Australia were baffled by a remarkable weather phenomenon where fish fell from the sky, which while uncommon, is not entirely unprecedented. People living in Lajamanu, a town situated on the northern part of the Tanami Desert, approximately 560 kilometres to the southwest of Katherine, demonstrated their surprise at witnessing fish falling from the sky amidst a spell of intense precipitation, as per reports.

Local and Central Desert councillor, Andrew Johnson Japanangka said in a statement that a big storm was heading up to his community and locals thought it was just rain. However, when it started raining locals witnessed fish falling down as well, he claimed.

Similar kind of incidents have taken place through the community in the past. The same thing happened at Lajamanu in 2010, and it was previously recorded in 2004 and 1974.

As maintained by weather experts, such incidents can be caused by huge updrafts like tornadoes which carry water and fish (other water bodies too) and transfer it to hundreds of kilometres away.

The fishes were about "the size of two fingers" and according to Japanangka, they were still alive.

While Japanangka had experienced the bizarre weather event before, he claimed it never stopped to surprise him. Japanangka said that the incident was a "blessing from the Lord."

A native of Alice Spring, identified as Penny McDonald, claimed that she was in Lajamanu when a similar incident occurred in the mid-1980s. She claimed that streets outside her home were covered in fish at that time.

Talking about their size and how many fishes must have been at that time, she said they were small fish and were a lot of them around.

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory’s Michael Hammer, claimed that he has studied cases like this before. Often people have witnessed fish scattered everywhere after a spell of rain, he said.

Hammer claimed it was "not unusual" for fish to rain down alive, as long as they were not raised too high and frozen in mid-air. He said that it depends on the local weather patterns.

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