Are sharknados tangible ? likely not , and we think that ’s a dear thing . Do you really require a crack – or tropical cyclone – to purloin up these apex predators , dump them on your front lawn , and leave them to be rather confused , frightened , and irate ? We think not .
However , it seems that fishnados are indeed real . According to theAssociated Press , civil defense functionary in northeast Mexico said , rather nonchalantly , that a “ scant rainwater ” convey with it several minuscule fish that tumbled down from the sky . That ’s right : the coastal city of Tampico will now be always known as the place where a fishnado touched down .
Pictures of the Pisces have been mail on various social metier sites , although avowedly it ’s unmanageable to swear how true the story is , even with a video of the Pisces laying on the ground emerging from the wilderness of the Web . It could potentially be a prank by some rather bored civil defense officials – but to be honest , science suggest that it ’s a perfectly plausible phenomenon .
Out to ocean , and sometimes on large lake , you have thing calledwaterspouts , which are powerful whirling columns of air , mist , and water vapor . They ’re a moment like humble , waterlogged tornados , and occur with all the bells and whistles you ’d expect – electrical storm , strong air current , ocean surge , and a lot of rain .
When waterspouts form , their energetic cyclonic nature entail that they can suck up sonorous objects , including Pisces , from the pee torso beneath them . So perhaps the tales of Mexican Pisces the Fishes rain are true all along .
crack and cloudburst are powerful enough to pick up awide rangeof life brute , it seems . Here ’s a video of acownadoin Kansas , for example . kick , medium - strain , you might say .
There have been multiple report of frognados too , the first of which dates back to the third century . Athenaeus of Naucratis , a wordsmith by all accounts , included this rather miraculous handing over in his surviving tome , Deipnosophistae :
“ In the Chersonesus [ an Ancient Greek colony ] it once rained fish uninterruptedly for three days , ” he noted , quote another writer . He then added that “ mass had often see it rain Pisces , and often also rain down wheat , and that the same thing had happened with respect to frog . ”
Apparently , it once rained toad frog so badly that the “ theatre and the roads had been full of them . ” At first , the resident physician simply “ endured the pest , ” but after a while , there wereso many frogsthat they commence to boil them up and poke fun them “ with everything they ate . ”
finally , these people “ fled the country . ” Let ’s hope it does n’t get quite that bad in Mexico .
[ H / T : AP viaThe New York Times ]
