Popular theories on how they got there include violent
weather phenomena such as water spouts.
Meteorologists and biologists have been left baffled by
earthworms raining from the sky over Southern
Norway.
According to Norwegian news service The Local, the
most recent phenomenon was discovered by biology
teacher Karstein Erstad while he was skiing in the
mountains.
"I saw thousands of earthworms on the surface of the
snow," he said.
"When I found them on the snow they seemed to be
dead, but when I put them in my hand I found that
they were alive."
He thought they might have crawled through the snow,
but rejected this idea, as the snow was over half a
metre thick across the mountains.
This is not the only time an area experiencing worms
raining from the sky in Norway, with other cases found
in Molde and Bergen, both in the south of the country.
One popular theory on random animal rain suggest
that the worms may have been lifted up by a violent air
pocket and then brought back down miles away from
where they started.
Another theory says water spouts, weather systems
similar to tornadoes, can travel from seas onto land
and pick up vegetation, debris, and small animals,
carrying them miles away from where they started
before they blow themselves out.
According to Erstad, it's not a new phenomenon, with
reports of worms raining from skies above Norway
dating back to the 1920s.
This rain of worms isn't confined to Norway either, with
a similar case reported at a Scottish Academy
secondary school in 2011.
According to a report by STV, a teacher and his
students had to take cover during a game of football
after worms started falling from the sky.
Teacher David Crichton said: "We were out playing
football and had just done our warm up and were
about to start the next part of the lesson.
"We started hearing this wee thudding noise on the
ground. There were about 20 worms already on the
ground at this point."
Crichton told STV he and his colleagues counted 120
worms across the astroturf pitch following the rainfall.
The phenomenon remains a mystery.
Heaven sent: Other falling creatures
* Between AD 77 and AD 79 the Roman writer Pliny the
Elder recorded a storm of frogs and fish in his Natural
History.
* Showers of live minnow and smooth-tailed
sticklebacks fell on Aberdare, Wales, 11 February 1859.
* On 21 May 1921 thousands of frogs fell on Gibraltar
during a thunderstorm.
* On 4 March 1998 a shower in Shirley, Croydon,
included a large number of dead frogs.
* A heavy storm in Acapulco, Mexico, on 5 October
1967, was accompanied by maggots around 1in long.
* Dozens of fish, later identified as flounder and smelt,
were found in gardens and on roofs in the borough of
Newham in east London, following a thunderstorm on
the night of 27-28 May 1984.
* On 17 May 1996 a fall of more than 20 small fish
was witnessed at Hatfield in Hertfordshire.
* A shower of apples brought rush-hour traffic to a
halt in Coundon, Coventry on 5 December 2011.

© The Independent, UK.

Pinchure or??

A heavy storm in Acapulco, Mexico, on 5 October
1967, was accompanied by maggots around 1in long.

[size=16pt] Yuccccck!! [/size]
Imagine me snuggling into your bed coming from the storm.