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Podcast: News For Kids
Episode: It's Raining Fish and Frogs
Description: Woah! That rain is really heavy!
Some people might even say "it's raining cats and dogs''! But that's just a funny expression. It just means heavy rain.
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But there actually is a very strange and rare weather event called animal rain! Yep. And it happened not long ago in the state of Texas in the USA.
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On what seemed like just a normal rainy day, people suddenly noticed fish and frogs falling to the ground!
How does this happen?
Sometimes a swirling wind, like a tornado, happens over water. This is called a waterspout.
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Sometimes small animals like fish and frogs get pulled into the waterspout and carried away from the water. They then come back down to the ground w...