Known as the Lluvia de Peces or “Rain of Fish,” it is said to occur at least once and sometimes twice in a year in the small town of Yoro. During a massive rain storm, hundreds of small silver fish supposedly rain from the sky onto the streets of the small town.
The likely scientific explanation for this is elegantly simple—waterspouts.
Waterspouts are like little tornadoes which form over a body of water. Though waterspouts do not suck water up into the air[ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=”show” ihc_mb_who=”2,3,5″ ihc_mb_template=”1″ ] (the “spout” is actually condensation), the whirlwind of waterspouts and tornadoes have the ability to lift small animals from the water and into the air, in which cases they can be carried quite far from their bodies of water and released somewhere else. And some tornadoes actually have the ability to suck up entire ponds.
Overall, this hypothesis makes a lot of sense considering that most animal rains consist of aquatic creatures.
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