Residents of the city of Texarkana, in the US state of Texas, were shocked on Wednesday when fish began to fall from the sky during a storm. The curious phenomenon was recorded by the town hall in a post on Facebook.
According to James Audirsch, who works at a car dealership in the city, it was raining hard and it was raining when suddenly a fish fell from the sky right in front of him. Intrigued, he commented to a colleague: “It’s raining fish! “, To which the colleague replied:” no, it is not “. But James was right, and other fish kept falling from the sky.
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The Texarkana city government said the phenomenon “is rare, but it does happen” and has been recorded in “several places” in the city. It is believed to occur when a waterspout passes over a river or lake and sucks up small animals, such as fish, frogs and crustaceans, which can be thrown great distances .
worm tornado
In March of this year, a “worm tornado” was spotted by a resident of Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. The night before, the city experienced heavy rains, which would have resulted in “many earthworms coming out of the ground for air,” Harry Tuazon, a doctoral student in Georgia Tech’s graduate program, told Live Science in interdisciplinary bioengineering.
“This form of tornado is really interesting,” said Kyungsoo Yoo, professor in the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate at the University of Minnesota. He studies how invasive earthworms transform forest ecosystems, and although they are known to emerge en masse from the ground after rain, Yoo has never seen them spiral before.
Saad Bhamla, assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), suggests that sudden changes in soil water in combination with the shape of the landscape could explain the appearance of the “worm tornado.” He, however, cannot tell which species of worms are from the photos.
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