Fish rain (krishna)

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AN ASSIGNMENT
ON
Fish Rain
Course Name: Library and Information Services (PGS 501)
Submitted to,
Sh. C. H Shah
Senior Librarian Technician
Junagadh Agricultural University,
Junagadh, (Gujrat)
Submitted By,
Name: Krishna
Reg. No. 2030316005
M.F.Sc. 1st
Year
College of fisheries,
(J.A.U.), Veraval
COLLEGE OF FISHERIES
Junagadh Agricultural University
VERAVAL, GUJRAT 362265

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CONTENT
Sn. No. Particular Page no.
01. Introduction 03
02. WhatisthereasonbehindFishrain 04
03. Old reports of rain of fish 05
04. Nandigama, Andhra Pradesh Fish rain 06
05. Fish rain near Jamnagar 06
06. Fish rain in Kerala 07
07. References 08

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INTRODUCTION
Fish don't usually fall from the sky, but this unusual meteorological phenomenon is
possible although rare. The best explanation for this odd occurrence is that strong air
disturbances, such as tornadoes, can lift water and fish up into the air. Then, the tornado can
carry them for some distance. When the tornado becomes weaker, its energy is not capable of
holding objects up off the ground any longer, and it begins to rain fish. This can also be
referred to as "animal rainfall," but often, the event is simply described as "raining fish."
Fish live in water, but tornadoes usually begin over land. If the tornado then moves
over water, it can create what is known as a waterspout. Instead of pulling air upward, it pulls
water upward. Fish in the water can also be drawn out at the same time. Waterspouts can
move at speeds of up to 100 miles (161 kilometers) an hour. This means that fish can travel
far away from their original location. The waterspout can only maintain its violent energy
temporarily, and when it loses momentum, it can rain fish. Fish may, surprisingly, survive the
waterspout and the fall to the ground. If the air inside the tornado is cold enough, the fish may
also freeze.
The meteorological phenomenon of waterspouts does not just have the capability to
rain fish. Over the centuries, there have been reports of skydiving frogs, crayfish, and lizards.
Stones can also fall from the sky. One report from the mid-1900s even tells the story of a rain
of candy. Most of the unusual rainfall items can be traced back to water sources. With items
falling from the sky, another more mundane possibility is that they were dropped from an
aircraft.
A feature of events that rain fish or other items is that usually only one type of object
falls on one area. Scientists suggest this is because each item differs in weight and size from
others. The lighter and smaller objects tend to be carried for longer periods than heavy and
large objects.

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WHATISTHEREASONBEHINDFISHRAIN
The fish do not really "rain" in the sense of condensing out of water vapor. The fish
that fall from the sky are just fish that used to be in the sea. So what puts the fish up in the
sky in the first place? Although few detailed scientific observations have been performed on
this phenomenon, the common consensus is that tornadoes are the culprit. When tornadoes
traverse over bodies of water, they become known as waterspouts. Waterspouts suck up lake
or ocean water along with the fish or other creatures swimming in the water. The fish are
sucked up the tornado's vortex and then blown around in the clouds until the wind speed
decreases enough to let them fall back to the ground, perhaps miles away from where they
started. According to Bill Evans' meteorology book titled It's Raining Fish and Spiders,
creatures fall from the sky about forty times a year. All sorts of creatures have been reported
raining down, including snakes, worms, and crabs, but fish and frogs are the most common.
Even squid and alligators have been reported to fall from the sky. Often, the process of being
swept high into the clouds encases these creatures in a layer of ice or hail that may still
remain after they have plummeted back to earth. Raining creatures encased in blocks of ice
can be very dangerous and have been known to smash through car windshields. If you see
any wildlife falling from the sky, seek shelter indoors immediately.
Waterspout formation
Fishes collected from fish rain

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The actual falling of the Marksville fish occurred in short intervals, during foggy and
comparatively calm weather. The velocity of the wind on the ground did not exceed 8 miles
per hour. The New Orleans weather bureau had no report of any large tornado, or updraft, in
the vicinity of Marksville at that time; however, numerous small tornadoes occurred the day
before the rain of fish in Marksville. Fish rains have nearly always been described as being
accompanied by violent thunderstorms and heavy rains. This, however, was not the case in
Marksvi lle.
Fallen fishes are usually alive, because fishes generally succumb slowly to falls and
blows. If they fallen grassy lands, the shock, of course, is much decreased. However,
numbers of those found are dead.
Fishery scientists of today agree with Raphael Eglini who believed in 1771 that these
extraordinary events result from the action of heavy winds. Powerful, rising spirals of air
from occasionally. If they occur over land, they are tornadoes, and if they occur over water,
they are waterspouts. These whirlwinds can pick up objects, whirl them to considerable
heights, often up into the thunderstorm clouds themselves, and transport them some distance
from the locality at which they were picked up. The objects fall when the spirals disperse and
usually scatter over a wide area.
OLD REPORTS OF RAIN OF FISH
 Singapore, February 22, 1861.
 Knighton, Powys, Wales, 18 August 2004.
 Madhesh, Nepal, May 15, 1900.
 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, July 1, 1903.
 Marksville, Louisiana, October 23, 1947.
 Kerala State, India, February 12, 2008.
 Bhanwad, Jamnagar, India, Oct 24, 2009.
 Lajamanu, Northern Territory, Australia, February 25 and 26, 2010.
 Loreto, Agusan del Sur, Philippines, January 13, 2012.
 IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Sep 12, 2013.
 The yearly Lluvia de Peces in Yoro, Honduras.
 Chilaw, Sri Lanka, 6 May 2014.
 Nandigama, Andhra Pradesh India, 19 June 2015.
 Guntur, Andhra Pradesh India, 16 August 2015.
 Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, 20 January 2016.
 Pathapatnam, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, 19 May 2016.
 Mumbai-Pune Express Highway, Maharashtra India, 12 July 2016.

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NANDIGAMA, ANDHRA PRADESH FISH RAIN
A strange incident was reported from Andhra Pradesh when fish were falling from the
sky. Eyewitnesses said that several hundreds of them could be seen strewn across the
agricultural fields. Villagers, believed it to be an act of God, but were later explained that it
could be a natural phenomenon.
Here's explaining what 'Waterspout' is. A tornado-like phenomena on the sea or any
water body that carries with it aquatic animals and a lot of other things too. Although the
phenomena is yet to researched thoroughly, this could be a possible reason why there have
been instances of falling tomatoes, frogs lumps of coal, water birds and worms.
FISH RAIN NEAR JAMNAGAR
Mysterious "Fish rain" is not yet over. In 2009 it was seen in Bhanwad and Bantiya
village of Junagadh district.Many Forest officials and Naturalist believed that the fishes must
have been dropped by pelicans during migration, Jamnagar Fisheries dept. have ruled out the
possibility that fish can get sucked in clouds and then fall as rain, they feel it as "absurd.
Navagam (Bhanwad) villagers said that they saw about half a kilometer long and as much
wide fish-laden clouds about 15 feet above the ground. This looks a bit outrageous though. In
Nawagam, fish fall was seen along with roads and markets and on terraces of several
buildings.

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FISH RAIN IN KERALA
Residents of Kandanassery village near here were quite surprised when small fish
started raining down towards the end of a sudden downpour last night. The phenomenon was
first noticed by two persons when the little slimy things started pattering on their body while
they were returning home late in the night. As they thought that people would reject this as a
mere fantasy or concocted tale unless there was a tangible proof, they picked up some of the
bubbling fish and kept them in a water-filled bucket near the village library.
Sivaraman, who first sighted the rare phenomenon, said he also saw some fish
crushed by vehicles that drove on the road when it was raining.
"There is no reason to disbelieve what the villagers say, as it is possible to have a scientific
explanation for this", Dr C K Rajan of the School of Marine Sciences of the Cochin
University of Science and Technology told when asked about the phenomenon. "When
convective clouds are formed, it is possible that tiny aquatic organisms get lifted to the
atmosphere. They can survive suspended in the clouds so long as the clouds have moisture
content," he said.
The type of fish that came down from the sky was the same as commonly found in
ponds and canals in the area, the villagers said. Some time back, a few places in the state had
received 'red coloured' rain. Scientists who studied the phenomenon attributed it to the
presence of algae in clouds.

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REFERENCES
1. http://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/Fishery%20Leaflets/leaflet513.pdf
2. http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/32767.
3. http://sciencequestionswithsurprisinganswers.org/2013/04/30/can-it-rain-fish/.
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_of_animals
5. http://www.pc-tablet.co.in/fish-fall-sky-andhra-pradesh-village/11068/.
6. http://www.bhaskar.com/news/MH-PUN-HMU-fish-rain-on-mumbai-pune-
expressway-news-hindi-5370894-PHO.html.