Is it true that it has rained fish before?

Answer 1

Yes I heard that. Apparantly something to do tornados collecting the fish in the path and then them falling from the tornado to make it look like it's raining.

Answer 2

A waterspout can sometimes successfully suck small objects like fish out of the water and all the way up into the cloud. Even if the waterspout stops spinning, the fish in the cloud can be carried over land, buffeted up and down and around with the cloud’s winds until its currents no longer keep the flying fish in the atmosphere. It’s like the fish are swimming in the cloud, says Renno. Depending on how far they travel and how high they are taken into the atmosphere, the fish are sometimes dead by the time they rain down. People as far as 100 miles inland have experienced raining fish.
Fewer than 10 occurrences have been reported in the past year, according to a news search, so local five-day forecasts probably won’t include fish showers. Still, people have reported such events for centuries.
(http://scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/)

As you can see it's a true phenomenon thanks to water spouts, tornado's that are currently over water.

Answer 3

Yes, very recently as a matter of fact. Check out the link below for the newspaper article.

The culprit: waterspouts.

Waterspouts, which are essentially tornadoes over water, form when cold air moves over warm water. They churn at speeds up to 200 miles an hour, but dissipate when rain begins to fall from their host cloud. Depending on how fast the winds are whipping, anything that is within about one yard of the surface of the water, including sailboats or fish of different sizes, can be lifted into the air, says Nilton Renno, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan.

Answer 4

This is true. I remember talking about this in science class, and specifically seeing a movie on it. A tornado had passed over a swamp, and had sucked the frogs from the pond. A few days later, after a cloud had formed from what was sucked up, it rained frogs over a town. It's actually not that uncommon. It just matters what gets picked up. If you want to read more, I provided a link to more stories concerning other animals and a better explanation. Edit - Ah. It appears like the guy before me copied the article right in, nevermind. =D

Answer 5

There are a considerable number of instances going back hundreds of years when it has in fact 'rained fish.'

It's assumed (because it would be hard to actually witness the even and thus prove it) that these fish have been swept up in some 'storm (by one title or another) vortex,' and thrown high into the atmosphere to land ~ wherever.

Sash.

Answer 6

Yes, it's true. All sorts of things have been sucked up by freak air currents, only to be re-deposited somewhere inappropriate.

Think about that strange sandy dust you find on your car sometimes. That dust might have been sucked up from a desert many 100s of miles away. Magnify that a few times and it becomes possible for quite large objects to be wrenched out of their natural habitat (through water spouts in the fishes' case) and dumped somewhere else.

Answer 7

Yes. High winds had collected the fish and then, when they dropped, dumped them down.
It has also rained frogs and red rain among other things.

Answer 8

I had an experience in 1999 in a place called Shell Island in North Wales UK;There had been a terrible storm with winds gusting up to 120mph - fish had managed to travel 1mile inland-into a field of sheep-from the sea.They did appear to fall from the sky in torrential rain.

Answer 9

In fact its true.But not only fish,which happened in the Valleys,in the Cynon Valley,About 4 miles from where i used to live.It rains frogs too,and various other reptiles.Strange but TRUE

Answer 10

Yes and I was in Thailand once when the rain contained thousands of small frogs that had been picked up and dropped in Typhoon conditions and most were alive.