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A rain of fish was recorded in Singapore in 1861, when during three days of torrential rain numerous fish were found in puddles. Raining snakes, 1680. A rain of animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky.
The English-language idiom "raining cats and dogs" or "raining dogs and cats" is used to describe particularly heavy rain.It is of unknown etymology and is not necessarily related to the raining animals phenomenon. [1]
The sources under the spider section both debunk these as "rain". One is called ballooning, a well known, natural spider behavior. The other: "The spider biologist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUC-PR), Marta Fischer, analyzed the image and said that the phenomenon is normal and occurs mainly in cities in the interior of São Paulo.
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Millions of Americans across the U.S. will be ringing in the New Year with umbrellas and ponchos as rain, snow, and even some thunderstorms could impact celebrations as we welcome 2025.
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The Amazon rainforest is a species-rich biome in which thousands of species live, including animals found nowhere else in the world. To date, there is at least 40,000 different kinds of plants, 427 kinds of mammals, 1,300 kinds of birds, 378 kinds of reptiles, more than 400 kinds of amphibians, and around 3,000 freshwater fish are living in Amazon.
Millions of people across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic faced a messy mixture of rain, snow and ice that slowed travel Monday as the final full workweek ahead of the busy Christmas holiday got ...