WHILE the Top End and Central Australia have been battered by
torrential rains, a Territory town has had fish falling from the sky.

The freak phenomena happened not once, but twice, on Thursday and
Friday afternoon about 6pm at Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of
Katherine.

"It rained fish in Lajamanu on Thursday and Friday night," she said,
"They fell from the sky everywhere. "Locals were picking them up off
the footy oval and on the ground everywhere.

"These fish were alive when they hit the ground." [That's always the
way of it.]

Lajamanu sits on the edge of the Tanami Desert, hundreds of kilometres
from Lake Argyle and Lake Elliott and even further from the coast. But
it's not the first time the remote community has been bombarded by
fins from above.

In 2004, locals reported fish falling from the sky, and in 1974, a
similar incident captured international headlines.

The small white fish are believed to be spangled perch, which are very
common through much of northern Australia.

Weather bureau senior forecaster Ashley Patterson said the geological
conditions were perfect on Friday for a tornado in the Douglas Daly
region.
[I like this man's thinking.]

He said it would have been an ideal weather situation to allow the
phenomena to occur - but no tornados have been reported to the
authority.

"It's a very unusual event," he said. "With an updraft, (fish and
water picked up) could get up high - up to 60,000 or 70,000 feet.

"Or possibly from a tornado over a large water body - but we haven't
had any reports," he said.

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