A town in the northern Australian desert has been pelted in a downpour - of fish.
Marine life tumbled out of the sky on two occasions last week, raining down on the Northern Territory town of Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of Katherine. The town is hundreds of kilometres from lakes and the coast.
Weather bureau senior forecaster Ashley Patterson told the Northern Territory News that a tornado in the nearby Douglas Daly region may have been responsible, although no twisters had been reported.
"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."
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OK...
and no one apparently had the common sense to video it raining fish...or even take a picture with their phone of fish falling from the sky...
just a single picture of 9 fish in a bowl...
does anyone else smell ' let's become a tourist town by conjuring up an incredible story that'll lure thousands of visitors to our dying town to revitalize it as a tourist attraction '