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What animals can fall from the sky when it is raining?

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There have been tales of frogs, shells, snails, fish and even starfish falling.
This often happens because a violent storm forms over areas where there are shallower waters, such as lagoons, creeks and ponds, causing updraughts. These updraughts take small, light creatures from shallower waters into the atmosphere, then travel a little distance (maybe up to many kilometres inland), dumping them somewhere else later.

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