My husband thinks it can rain frogs and fish?

Question

Has anybody else ever heard of anything like this before?

Answer 1

ONLY if a waterspout (tornado) had picked up the animals from the water before dropping them back to earth. That actually HAS been documented.

Answer 2

Not fish but frogs in a matter of speaking there is a species of frog that lives in the tropical areas that live in trees and when a heavy wind or rain comes the frogs fall from the trees (appearing to rain)

Answer 3

It's not unheard of... If you have a very powerful storm where a tornado is formed over a body of water, small frogs and fish can be picked up into the air and then dropped in another place. To the people around it, it would seem like it's raining frogs and fish.

Reasonable enough?

Answer 4

Yes, it can....If a tornado passes over a lake,stream, or river it can pick up frogs and fish and carry them for several miles before dropping them out of the sky which may seem to some as if it raining frogs and fish. The Bible also says that this has happened in the past.

Answer 5

NOT rain but some can actually fly.

FROGS:

Yes.......it is called a Wallace's flying frog.

FISH:

YES.........Several fish can fly

The Exocoetidae or flying fishes are a marine fish family comprising about 50 species grouped in 7 to 9 genera. Flying fish are found in all the major oceans, mainly in warm tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Their most striking feature is their pectoral fins, which are unusually large, and enable the fish to take short gliding flights through air, above the surface of the water, in order to escape predators.

Answer 6

It has accually happened a couple times, sorry don't know anyweb pages... But when a hurricane is building up strength over water it tends to pick up water from the ocean and the occasinal fish gets sucked up too and dumped when it hits land. I'm sure the same would be true if a tornado over water sucked up some frogs and later dumped them when they died out, just look how many flying cars, cows, houses, ect that they make. Isn't nature great????

Answer 7

you know, my parents told me something about this before. because i guess somewhere in the mountains (where they used to live) there was just a pond in the middle of no where. (surronded only by rock and only there after rains) and it was littered with fish and frogs. they used to tell me and my brother that it rained frogs and fish, but once i got older i assumed they were carried up there by birds... Im not really sure.

Answer 8

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Q: What's worse than raining cats and dogs? A: Hailing taxicabs. Painful, ain't it?

It is possible for critters to rain from the sky. Usually waterspouts are to blame, although you can't rule out a passing Aloha Airlines flight. Waterspouts can suck stuff out of a body of water and carry it for miles. There have been dozens of reports of falling fish, usually small ones, although a few years back some startled folks in India beheld a rain of eight-pounders. There are also reports of raining frogs, birds, grasshoppers, hay, grain, and so on.

This may lead you to think waterspouts or their inland cousins the whirlwinds are the source of the expression "raining cats and dogs." But there are many competing explanations. A sample:

1. It comes from the Greek catadupe, waterfall. In other words, it's coming down in cataracts.

2. It comes from the Latin cata doxas, contrary to experience, i.e., it's raining unusually hard.

3. In Germanic mythology cats were associated with storms and rain, whereas dogs were attendants of Odin the storm god and were symbols of the winds. Ergo, raining cats and dogs means you have a lot of wind (the dogs' department) and rain (the cats' bailiwick).

4. In medieval London stormwater would sluice down the narrow streets and drown stray cats and dogs, whose corpses would then be discovered in the gutters afterward by the emerging humans. Aha! they said, it must have rained C&D.

Hmm. Food for thought. To wrap up, let me inform you that there is an entire book devoted to this and other meteorological subjects:

Can it Really Rain Frogs : The World's Strangest Weather Events (Spencer Christians World of Wonders) by Spencer Christian and Antonia Felix http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471152900/qid=1125186421/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-4992673-9020021?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


Finally, here are some additional Web links to aid you in further research if you still a bit "froggy" in your understanding of this phenomenon:

It's Raining Frogs! http://allaboutfrogs.org/weird/general/raining.html

Weird, Weird Rain http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa082602a.htm

Egads, it's Raining Frogs http://tarotcanada.tripod.com/RainingFrogs.html

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Answer 9

it is theoretically possible and has been known to happen before. It doesn't rain frogs and fish so to speak, but sometimes a violent storm can carry out frogs and fish from the ocean and dump them onto nearby coastal land.

Answer 10

Not possible. Even though frogs and fish live in water, the water is not sucked up and then rained down. It slowly evaporates and could never carry an animal with it.

Answer 11

WOW I had no idea it could happen. Hope you don't hate it when your hubby's right!

There are actual articles if you do a search on raining frogs and fish! Shocked me!