What are the strange "rains" around the world?

"Pie in the sky", this is a joke, laughing at those whimsical people. However, there are so many wonders on this earth. The sky occasionally sends unexpected "gifts" to people. In history, there are places where wheat, beans, frogs, fish, and even silver coins have rained!

In AD 55 (the 31st year of Jianwu in the Eastern Han Dynasty), an interesting anecdote happened in Chenliu County (now Kaifeng, Henan): One day after dark clouds and strong winds passed, a large amount of millet suddenly fell from the sky. The strange news spread like wildfire across the country. There were different opinions at that time. Some people said that Guyu was a charity from the Dragon King. Scientist Wang Chong said that this is a cyclone sweeping the grains from elsewhere into the high altitude, and then falling together with the rain.

In 1804, there was a "wheat rain" along the coast of Spain. This has made the local people very busy. They all carry their pockets to collect the wheat that "falls from the sky". During the Spring Festival of 1979, a "bean rain" suddenly began to fall in a village near Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. Countless black beans fell from the sky and fell all over the ground. One family picked up more than 50 kilograms.

Since the 19th century, "frog rain" has occurred in Lyon, France, the United Kingdom, and Memphis, the United States. In the Toulon region on the Mediterranean coast of southern France, a "frog rain" suddenly fell one afternoon. People rushed to the open air to watch the excitement, and saw frogs falling from the sky. Everyone clapped their hands and marveled. However, extreme joy brings sorrow. Although the frog is small, it fell from a high place. Many people were beaten with swollen heads and blue eyes, and they complained endlessly.

On the afternoon of May 1, 1988, strong winds of magnitude 7 and thunderstorms blew in Pengzhuang Village, Tongbai County, Hunan Province. Half an hour later, many small dark brown toads were found falling with the rain in the small mountain depression. In the central area, which has the largest number, there are 90 to 110 toads per square meter, and they are constantly jumping towards the nearby pond.

There is even stranger rain. In 1856, tens of thousands of metal needles used for knitting wool were sprinkled over Kentucky, USA, flying all over the sky, creating a spectacle; in 1890, a "rain" fell in Puketula Province, Russia; in 1940 , Misili Village, Pavlov District, Gorky Province, former Soviet Union, suddenly dropped thousands of silver coins, which was the currency of Ivan's fifth generation.

There is a lot of "fish rain". In 1859, there was a heavy rain in Glamorgan County, England, and there were many small fish mixed in the rain. In 1949, there was a "fish rain" in Maxwell, Louisiana, USA, and biologists personally collected a large bottle of specimens. The Caribbean also often experiences "fish rain". In 1974, there was also a "fish rain" in the mountains of northern Australia. More than 15,000 bass landed together with the heavy rain.

At the beginning of the 19th century, a "shrimp rain" fell along the coast of Denmark for 20 minutes. In 1881, a large number of small crabs and corn snails fell in a storm in the British city of Worcester.

With the development of science, the mystery of strange rain has gradually been revealed. All kinds of strange rain are not gifts from God, but tricks played by whirlwinds or tornadoes. Due to the rapid movement of air, strong vortices sometimes form. The air in the vortex is thin and the pressure is low, which creates a strong suction force on the surroundings. Wherever a cyclone or tornado passes, things are swept up into the sky and then come down.

The "Wheat Rain" was a tornado that robbed a warehouse full of wheat in Morocco. Wheat followed the storm across the Strait of Gibraltar and fell along the coast of Spain.

"Metal Needle Rain" is a factory in Kentucky that produces knitting needles. It was destroyed by a cyclone the day before, and some knitting needles flew into the sky with the wind. The silver coins falling from the sky turned out to be not far from Misili Village. In ancient times, nobles buried many silver coins underground. Over the years, the ground eroded, storms washed away the soil, and tornadoes swept the coins into the sky, only to fall again with the rain.

Fish and shrimp on the sea and bass in the river are also swept up into the sky by tornadoes and blown far away, causing wonders such as "fish rain" and "shrimp rain". Red rain comes from the red soil on both sides of the Red River.

There are also Black Rain and Blue Rain. In the summer of 1962, a burst of black rain suddenly fell in Maoshenggang, Malaysia. After the heavy rain, the water in the streams and rivers there was turned black.

It turned out that strong winds were blowing Malaysian black soil into the sky, and it was raining down.

In the spring of 1954, a blue rain fell in the United States. This was the powder from the aspen and elm trees there, which was blown into the sky and fell with the rain. On June 13, 1956, there was a "milk rain" in Kiev, Ukraine. The "milk" drops left white spots on clothes, which were chalk and clay dust mixed in the rain.

In 1892, in the Spanish city of Cordoba, at about 8 o'clock in the evening, lightning struck in the sky, and electrically charged raindrops fell. When they hit the leaves, walls and ground, they produced weak, shining electric sparks, which almost It disappeared within seconds.

Snow is precipitation just like rain, and there are also sparkling snow and snow of various colors.

On March 3, 1964, a rare flash of snow fell in Tucson, Arizona, USA. At about 8 o'clock in the evening, it started to rain, then lightning, and heavy snow fell. The snow fell to the ground, and from time to time a short flash appeared, like a candlelight. It is not as fast and violent as lightning, nor does it have the sound of thunder.

Scientists were the first to discover red, yellow, green, brown and other colored snow in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, sometimes covering a large area and appearing and disappearing. Scientists have discovered that these colorful snows are formed by the proliferation of lower plants, snow algae. The colorful snow falling in the sky is caused by the snow algae being blown into the sky by the storm, meeting the snow flakes, and sticking to the snow flakes. It turns out that snow algae contain chromoplasts, which can perform photosynthesis and produce their own nutrients. Due to the different proportions of chlorophyll and other pigments in various algae, there are red algae, yellow algae, green algae and cyanobacteria.

Green snow has fallen in Siberia, green snow has fallen in the Alps and Spilbergen Island, brown snow has fallen in the Swiss mountains, and colored snow with a watermelon smell has fallen in California, USA. These are also all kinds of "tricks" played by watermelon-flavored algae.

There was yellow snow once in Norway. This was due to the fragments of a kind of pine tree rolling into the sky and condensing with water vapor to form yellow snow.

In 1897, black snow fell in Petersburg. People have discovered that there are billions of tiny black insects in the snow. They roam the sky on the wind and land on the ground together with the snow.