WEIRD SCIENCE

Take your brolly… it’s raining fish

IT MIGHT not literally rain cats and dogs – but it can rain fish. Every year in Honduras a shower of tiny fish – including sardines – fall from the sky.

People in the central American country have traditionally believed such incidents were a sign from the heavens, but there is a logical, scientific explanation.

The incidents follow a tornado, after fish on the surface of the water have been whipped up by the wind, pulled into the storm and launched high into the sky. As the speed of wind gradually decreases, the creatures begin to fall.

Scientists report roughly 40 ‘fish rain’ incidents each year.