Is raining animals true?

Question

Is raining animals true?

Answer 1

tornados , water spouts etc have all caused this to happen.....but you almost never here over multiple species being affected.

Answer 2

Yes. Raining animals is true...Once in some 1950's or 1960's, it rained frogs. It also rained cats in 1800's.

Answer 3

Yes, it is.

Excerpt following from Wikipedia.com

Raining animals is a relatively rare meteorological phenomenon, although occurrences have been reported from many countries throughout history. One hypothesis that has been furthered to explain this phenomenon is that strong winds travelling over water sometimes pick up debris such as fish or frogs, and carry them for up to several miles.[1] However, this primary aspect of the phenomenon has never been witnessed or scientifically tested.

The animals most likely to drop from the sky in a rainfall are fish and frogs, with birds coming third. Sometimes the animals survive the fall, especially fish, suggesting a small time gap between the extraction and the actual drop. Several witnesses of raining frogs describe the animals as startled, though healthy, and exhibiting relatively normal behavior shortly after the event. In some incidents, however, the animals are frozen to death or even completely encased in ice. These occurrences may be evidence for the transport of the victims to high altitudes, where the temperature is below zero, and they show how powerful meteorological forces can be. The potential violence of this phenomenon is shown by examples where the product of the rain is not intact animals, but shredded body parts. Some cases are caused just after storms having strong winds especially during tornadoes. However, there have been numerous cases in which rainfalls of animals have occurred in fair weather and in the absence of strong winds or waterspouts.

Answer 4

Yep theres been several well documented cases of various animals raining/falling out of the sky.

There was a case in france where frogs fell along with a heavy downpour of rain onto a village & there have also been cases where fish and other animals have "rained" or fallen from the sky. Including a case in Russia where live sea dwelling fish fell thousands of kilometers inland.

Answer 5

true

Answer 6

you should know when you go outside and step in a poodle!

Answer 7

i think so!    true

Answer 8

i read abt in may issue of suman-saurabh

Answer 9

omb really?

lol next time it rains im gunna go outside with some dog food.

Answer 10

Yes it happens all the time frog and fish eggs get lifted into the stratosphere by water spouts and float around on the air currents in thunder storms when they get big enough they fall out of the clouds.