Every year, the sky ‘rains fish’. Explanations vary.

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Every year, the sky ‘rains fish’. Explanations vary.
Every year, the sky ‘rains fish’. Explanations vary.
La Unión, a small rural community in Yoro, Honduras, June 11, 2017. Residents here report an annual “rain fish,” when they say silver sardines supposedly fall from the sky after a heavy storm. It could be science, or a miracle. Photo: The New York Times

Published: 2:15 PM, July 17, 2017
Updated: 2:52 PM, July 17, 2017

YORO (Honduras) — Things don’t come easy in La Unin, a small community on the periphery of Yoro, a farming town in north-central Honduras.

Poverty is universal, jobs are scarce, large families are crammed into mud-brick homes and meals often are constituted of little more than the subsistence crops residents grow — mainly corn and beans.

But every once in a while an amazing thing happens, something that makes the residents of La Unin feel pretty special.

The skies, they say, rain fish.

It happens every year during the late spring and early summer. And only under specific conditions: A torrential downpour, thunder and lightning, conditions so intense that nobody dares to go outside.

Continued: http://www.todayonline.com/world/every-year-sky-rains-fish-explanations-vary