Fish falling from the sky

To me, writing this blog, and to you, reading this blog, it seems impossible for fish to fall out of the sky.  We laugh it off as a hoax and go onto the next subject.  What would the case be if I told you this scenario happened more than once in the world’s history? 

The raining of fish has been documented since the 1800’s, with the most recent scenario I could find documented in the remote Australian town of Lajamanu on 2 March 2010.  Fish fell in their hundreds all over the town of 650 residents.  The fish were alive when they hit the ground.  Meteorologists was of the opinion that the incident was caused by a tornado, as it is common for tornados to suck up water and fish from rivers and drop them again.  This however was not the first time residents saw this incident happen. 

There are many theories as to why this scenario happens around the world.  Most of these rains are recognized by professionals as caused by severe storms, tornadoes, water spouts and related phenomenon.  The theory has not yet been proved, but the assumption is that strong winds pick up the fish from water such as ponds, streams and lakes, carry them up in the air (sometimes for miles) and then drop it again.

The strangeness about this occurrence is that, in most cases, the rains are of one kind of animal only.  How can it only rain one species of bass, for example?  If a storm scoops up water from a pond, river or ocean, wouldn’t it rain all kinds of species?

This just shows that we have yet to learn a lot about Mother Nature.