Australian town, 300 miles from river, hit by raining fish
Residents in a remote Australian town, over 300 miles from the nearest river, are recovering after witnessing two days of fish raining from the sky.
Lajamanu in the Northern Territory, with a population 669, has seen hundreds of small white fish fall from rain clouds with many still alive.
Weather experts in Australia believe the fish, were sucked up in a thunderstorm before being dumped over the tiny town.
Mark Kersemakers, the senior forecaster at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, said: “It could have scooped the fish up to 40,000 to 50,000 feet in the air.
“Once they get up into the system they are pretty much frozen. After some period they are released.”
It is the third time in less than 30 years that Lajamanu has been deluged by falling fish after the phenomenon stuck in 1974 and 2004.
Joe Ashley, 55, from Jabir, said: “Usually fish are in the water now they are falling out of the sky what if anything bigger falls out of the sky next?
“It could be crocodiles that would be real scary.”
