Marilyn's Photos - July 6 2026 - Fall from the sky
As we look for fireflies at night, it is also time to gaze at the sky and ask this question: what bizarre and extreme things have fallen from the sky?
The largest snowflake: in 1887 in Montana. It measured 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. That might have given rise to Snowflake Pie.
The largest piece of ice: in August 1849, a 20 foot long piece of ice fell in Scotland.
The heaviest hailstones on record weighed more than 2 pounds and reportedly killed 92 people in Bangladesh in 1986.
The things like fish and frogs come from the sky due to weather formations such as waterspouts. They suck marine life from the water and rain it down below somewhere else.
In Punta Gorda, Florida there was a hail storm of golf balls in 1969. The reason was never confirmed but the theory that "stuck" is that a waterspout scooped up all the golf balls languishing in the golf ponds.
This could only happen in the 20th century - in 1969 a South Carolina factory producing non-dairy creamer had malfunctioning air vents. The clogged vents allowed the powder mixture to leak into the air where it mixed with falling rain and fell in glops in Chester, South Carolina.
Of course - money - in 2015 United Arab Emirates dirham currency showered over Kuwait City. In Servia, a plane carrying gold and diamonds spilled cargo over the runway in 2018.
And then there's space junk. But the claim is that the machinery won't survive re-entry intact and will splinter into sufficiently small pieces.
When there's enough rain on the windshield, the distortions are excellent. You need lots of gloppy rain. Here are the kinds of images that happen.
No comments:
Post a Comment