Why Frogs Sometimes Fall From the Sky

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SciShow Wait, it rained whales? Seems legit. 😉

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I got all 5 questions right on the quiz. I love meteorology. :)

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SciShow Why 77? That number seems kind of random.

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SciShow, Buzzfeed.... who has the craziest titles?

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The raining frogs I saw last time were summoned by a guy who can control weather.

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Jojo fan detected

[@anshukun]

weather report

[@anshukun]

lol i came from stone ocean

[@AceBenedictCDiaz]

Bruh Moment

[@kyle_1960]

Stone Ocean

[@zain1045]

What a wonderful weather report !

[@RED01SEA]

I see what you did there , also Fargo , also magnolia

[@GucciPucciMIH]

*chew*

[@phoenixd3472]

Yep

[@Lite_YTz]

Jojo reference

[@haroon914]

i just hope they arent poisonous

[@simplementeunloquendero4439]

"My ability, Weather Report, can manipulate the weather. This is all I can do, I may not be able to save you, but I still may protect the disc. And if you still have the conviction, you may be able to make it out."

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Magnolia

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Lucas V. I was looking for this comment.

[@BIGBIRD208]

Luke Osland Dude, same here.

[@ivantheterriblepart3]

That’s what brought me here lol

[@visualsforyou7120]

This is something that happens.

[@bruhmoment7430]

just finished it like 10 minutes ago

[@seasong7655]

Still waiting for the next Jojo

[@souland3566]

Weather report

[@eduardogranillo6899]

Today was confirmed :)

[@redwood6518]

@@eduardogranillo6899 trailer got released

[@eduardogranillo6899]

@@redwood6518 excellent

[@redwood6518]

@@eduardogranillo6899 It’s only a matter of venus days

[@annawhiting]

The way the title was worded made it sound like this happens every couple of weeks. Like someone would just say "Oh yeah. Those are frogs. Must be Tuesday." lmao

[@Azariah_art]

Anna Whiting no no no, Wednesday is frog day Tuesday was fish day.

[@jvtps765]

It's Wednesday my dudes

[@jarv7441]

I could never get a grip on tuesday's

[@thomasdimarco1167]

We had sharknado so why not frognado?

[@Muykle]

with AGW, sharkados may be a a thing with higher energy in the water. not a lingering existential threat so much as a "What the ..." kind of event.

[@TardisPilot2004]

Thomas Di Marco I'd watch that.

[@sossololpipi9633]

Well why not safely bring a Duke Fishron?

[@cascul1]

And the sequel, Frognado 2: Pepe's Revenge

[@teentitan2514]

Thomas Di Marco Theres also a movie called dickanado and it is exactly what you think it is.

[@OfficiallySatan]

the frogs evaporate in the sun then reform in the clouds before falling back to earth simple science smh

[@Misack8]

Your comment made my sides sublime.

[@agentmothman5343]

Pfft, you sheep, you'll believe anything science tells you, won't you? It's clearly frogs jumping off the side of the flat earth and respawning in a new location.

[@kushraghav]

ThePotatoSpaceman 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@harrietoliver514]

@@kushraghav what the hell?

[@barkha8320]

😂

[@mZStarCraft]

Only in Serbia does it rain frogs. In Russia it is said to rain bears.

[@FearTheWeird300]

miniZergling on unicycles

[@hekatrisplays2046]

In mother Russia, rain bear you.

[@barackhusseinobama5604]

In Soviet Russia, bears rain on clouds.

[@Locut0s]

In Russia is rains dead political adversaries.

[@mZStarCraft]

Because Putin is just that damn good.

[@MindlessTube]

Was wondering why my air shipment of frogs never showed up.

[@khuramzahid]

Someone get me my inhaler!

[@victoriapierce9810]

mindlesstube lol

[@musclehank6067]

they actually fall from the sky because they follow my squat Technic and they get crazy thighs

[@teentitan2514]

Muscle Hank nah they just playin fortnite irl

[@SpacePlague]

Muscle Hank I thought they were falling from the sky because you were throwing them up there

Muscle Hank *technique

[@lucky43113]

Muscle Hank can spell it how ever he wants Spell Check is for the weak

[@DT-rd5fc]

Muscle Hank ijui

[@SlickNickP]

So you’re saying that a Sharknado isn’t *impossible*

[@Muykle]

With strong enough winds a few sharks could fly up high. They would probably die either airborn from suffocation or from the impact.

[@juliamelone8109]

They've actually done a few videos on the logistics of Sharknado lol

[@housephone9090]

Have you seen the electric firenado

[@victoriapierce9810]

Lol

[@alexmalden7165]

@@housephone9090 ikr the 4th one was cool I likes the rock one

[@skittflash]

Because of Weather Report obviously.

[@alicealicia4975]

You Mean Heavy Weather ?

[@souland3566]

@@alicealicia4975 isn't heavy rain a different ability

[@MissingVoidTV]

It's raining frogs, hallelujah it's raining frogs!

[@3800S1]

LMAO!

[@EclipsedPsycho]

Top Conspiracies lol lml lmaooooooooo

[@synphilia4776]

Amen

[@phoenixerrlybird3634]

Nawww its raining men, daddy 😗

[@DoraemonCoolrocks]

Exodus 8:2

[@nicholasallan3310]

Why Frogs Sometimes Fall From the Sky? beacus weather report summon it

[@jab7474]

I knew someone would make this joke as soon as I saw the episode lmao.

[@tomaszzagadka979]

That`s some nice... Weather Report

[@Sleipnirseight]

One of my friends just told me that she and her father witnessed "frog rain" several decades ago in Eastern VA. They were driving back home very late at night and the weather seemed fairly clear when suddenly, what they assumed was hail started hitting the car.... they were shocked when they realized it wasn't hail at all, but small frogs falling from the sky. There was no rain, no debris or leaves falling, just frogs! They even pulled over to double check what they were seeing. They never spoke about it again and never told anyone because they thought no one would believe them. But she decided to tell me a few weeks back and my first thought was "water spout!". Thanks for this video, I'll send it her way :)

[@gringostarr69]

In Finland when I was about 15. Me and my friend were driving from our cottage to theirs at night time. Then the car started slipping a lot and we stopped to watch what is on the road. It was literally 1km of gravel with diches on each side road FULL of mating frogs. Thousands and thousands of them. First it looked like leaves from inside the car, but when we got out it was crazy! This happened + 20 years ago. The road was paved with frogs and we just couldn't avoid them almost even while walking. There is a steep climb +30 degrees and 300 meters long and we had to gather speed three times to get up that hill. It was crazy. Never seen anyrhing like it and propably never will..

[@Sleipnirseight]

@@gringostarr69 WOW that is disturbing but also incredible! I would love to ask some ecologists about that, I wonder if any would know the species or ever heard of such a thing. So fascinating!

[@Karlos1234ify]

Damn it Weather Report

[@lilywalatahersweet21]

Will you also cover subliminal snail messaging through rainbows?

[@koopertrooper7008]

lmao

[@alicealicia4975]

Finally I Found A Good Jojo Reverence

[@Commander-peepers]

12 days remaining

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WeZa RePoTo 🌨🐸🌨

[@Master_Therion]

You know what happens when Santa's sleigh is hit by lightning? It will Rain Deer.

[@jakelong4271]

Damn you

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Booo! Boooooooo!

[@sapphirII]

Please don't stop.

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Master Therion nice

[@SeanRPS]

Master Therion oh deae

[@rex.2053]

this is agreat sequal idea for sharknado FROGNADO CONFIRMED!!

[@JEAthePrince]

rex. Return of Tentaclenado, Attack of the Apothicans

[@LLLadySSS]

rex. No

[@everyonesfavoritedisappoin6603]

Broooo I'd start freaking out if I'm just walking down the street and start having frogs fall on me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@rex.2053]

same

[@higurashitatsumaki5583]

The stand "Weather report" brought me here

[@gaenaegga]

saw it happend once when i was imprisoned somewhere in florida, bunch of poison dart frogs started splattering everyone on the prison yard

[@Chibi_Nagisa]

Good thing you haven't attacked by a stando user

[@zidanefaris8073]

In 2011, it rained frogs in Florida.

[@zidanefaris8073]

It was in "state dolphin prison".

[@shubniggurath9097]

The Weather Reports were having a field day.

[@SanctuaryReintegrate]

Spider rain. I'm on the wrong planet. No wait... The wrong universe.

[@riskitforthetriscuitt2548]

*Calls Adele* *has ten more problems but with a sick soundtrack*

[@hellodigitalworld8224]

A priest and frogs

[@JustaToast-05]

Ah yes, a priest who restarted the universe and his brother who can make it raining frogs

[@YkGhostProd]

*「HEAVY WEATHER」*

[@11Harute]

Here’s a weather report or heavy weather!

[@Messed-up-logic]

Do the frogs just splat when they hit the ground because that would be terrifying.

[@Muykle]

don't most animals?

[@raven-wolvv]

Soft landing

[@jiggyjigster1117]

Paul Drake I love this

[@seraphic22]

Depends on the size of a frog, larger frogs probably will die on impact but smaller frogs could live. The terminal velocity of small creatures (mouse size or less) can be low enough that the impact alone isn't enough to kill them. That's why the ballooning they were talking about with spiders doesn't result in their death, regardless of the height they can't fall fast enough to kill them ... and with that thought, I am never going outside again.

[@Mr.McQueen]

What if they land on a trampoline

[@zedantXiang]

I guess there's a reason why this vidoe got recommended to me after Jojo part 6 was released/

[@uriahfiiya]

Pics or it didn’t happen

[@Sparrow420]

I saw the spider pictures. you don't wanna see that. fml.

[@tarunhiremathdr]

we had some small fish fall from the sky in India, back in 2000's.. don't have pics though.. digital cameras were expensive then..

[@Joenah.]

Lol

[@sumitjha9730]

T Even my grandparents say they have seen fish rains (In India). And yeah, they don’t have pictures because cameras were expensive back then.

[@godly99999]

I literally have a shirt that says this now

[@wardomatch5975]

Was that a motherf*cking Jojo’s reference!

[@Ydudodat]

And here i thought weather report ability was a plot hole...

[@tasyaroblox9884]

oh yeah its weather report time

[@trinidadiannerd]

Raining is now a jojo reference

[@TSUG0MU]

ehem Catch The Rainbow

[@fredrik.larsen]

Fishy weather. Hah, I got it. Well done.

[@onewingedren2228]

Weather Report is the reason

[@XSIANED]

1:02 I got confused a moment and thought whales were falling from the sky too LOL

[@MrDan1969]

I saw documentaries about this phenomenon with sharks

[@007batman8]

DanB Meyer Sharknado!!?

[@nephdrummond3168]

007 BaTMaN >that_would_be_the_joke.png

[@pratapsinghkanishk]

Good population control strategy. Even better than Thanos idea.

I've been a long-time subscriber to the show and I just want to say thank you for your content! I love the interest you generate in stem!

[@Anthonyist]

*Goes outside spider ran begins to fall down* *Calmly goes inside. Gets flame thrower* Me: SciShow prepared me for this. *Uses flamethrower.* *Creates new problem: Flaming spider rain*

[@nephdrummond3168]

Anthonyist I think that should be one of the plagues in a religion, who wouldn’t follow damn near any rules to avoid that?

[@stevenglansburg856]

Too memey:

[@thekarasu101]

Anthonyist ii

[@grasu1381]

That is some HEAVY WEATHER right there

[@nickk.a]

You know what's worse? When spiders "rain" from your bedroom ceiling 😕 yes I'm from Australia

[@GameMasterWLC]

n o p e

[@darrendalton6480]

*_W h y ?_*

[@thomasandstacieverroad8156]

I've actually seen this happen in St Augustine Florida. There was a waterspout approximately 1000 yards off of the beach and when it dissipated the beach rained tiny fish for about 30 seconds. That's the only place they could have come from and I witnessed the water spout and the fish hitting the beach

[@bluecoconut9543]

“Do you believe in gravity?”

[@hargroves240]

​@@bluecoconut9543the g-man is def real

[@eliannam.5700]

It's not a bird, it's not a plane, it's Frog-man!!!

[@MM-co3gl]

Elianna M it's suicidal pepe

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[@IDK_Nona19]

Weather report caused this with his stand “weather report” , he tried saying his friend Jolyne with his power of controlling the weather. this is actually funny imagine if this is real..

[@brockrock2359]

Florida is a massive jojo reference

[@eduardogranillo6899]

Today stone ocean was confirmed

[@Gentai123]

adhd made me stop watching jojo to look this up

[@jab7474]

Same.

[@-MVP-]

"This happens. This is something that happens. This is something that happens."

[@martinchristianaguilar5135]

Time to think of PRIME NUMBERS

[@ambientaddict7613]

Paul Thomas Anderon's MAGNOLIA

[@redbeard3574]

After seeing that title, I had to check my calendar to confirm that it wasn't an April fools day video.

[@aliobaidy6662]

I think my daughter saw that

[@jairbarros6067]

Do you underSTAND [W E A T H E R R E P O R T] ?

[@requiem165]

Wehza.. reporto

[@pinkfridge8272]

Weza repoto

[@LunaStarRocks]

Wait what? Animals actually fall from the sky? What

[@jagslab]

5@$(:-

[@amykelley666]

Very rarely, but yes

[@Apoplectic_Spock]

It's horseshit!

[@LevelingUpMyLife]

Cheshire Wonderland yes, frogs, birds, fish

[@nonokraan6567]

Kell Of Kells Cringe

[@godlotus8329]

who else searched this after watching jojo part 6?

[@Elixir_JPGG]

Heheehheheheheheheheheheehehehehehehheheehehhehheehehehehheheheheheh

[@Madao1710]

What a beautiful day in Green Dolphin Street prison

[@lunagalaxybrain351]

weather report

[@teentitan2514]

People: frogs are raining from the sky and no one knows why Me an intellectual: coz those frogs are playing fortnite irl

[@noahherritt6452]

Shivam Sharma "where we droppin bois?"

[@davidklein1667]

Shivam Sharma don't get a cramp from patting yourself on the back! People that refer to themselves as 'intellectuals ' are usually marginally so. Those that are have no need or ego that requires them to inform us of their IQ.

[@teentitan2514]

David Klein everyone knows I have Rick and morty level of IQ. I am the supreme leader. Ur alien overlord.

[@davidklein1667]

Shivam Sharma Thanks for tipping us to your presence....now go back to your country...ooops, I mean world! WORLD!

[@teentitan2514]

David Klein lol good one😂😂😂😂😂

[@theletteronehundred]

You know I always wondered why frogs fell from the sky thank you for answering this question that has constantly been on my mind

[@Voidi-Void]

im so sorry for this... but... IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!

[@Elixir_JPGG]

*YES* *YES* *YES* *YES* *YES*

[@MtskiTv]

YES, IT IS!

[@sethytrashroad2561]

That said, if storms are around and it starts raining objects like papers or insulation? Take tornado safety precautions immediately, because that's a warning sign you're too close to the path of a tornado.

[@isee7274]

Don't worry it's just Weather Report

[@jaivirmalhotra15]

Magnolia, ANYBODY⁉️ MAGNOLIA ANYBODY ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️‼️‼️‼️

[@brycesabin4787]

Sharknado is possible. I’m already hiring an evil scientist

[@nothefabio]

Glitch on the Matrix.

[@inSpihr]

Idk for fish they usually school up in the ocean (schools of same species) Near the surface. And for alot of frog species its usually mostly one type in a specific pond or puddle. My theories based off the waterspout tornado theory.

[@scott4shell]

Just me or dose anyone else want to see hank do the entire quiz I was enjoying that

[@zachwhite7397]

THOUSANDS of birds died from being startled? A photo showing at least 500 birds falling from the sky(not sure if this is an actual photo of them falling or just used to get an idea of how many there would be) is because of the birds getting startled? wot m8 that doesn't make sense

[@CrybabyArtist]

thousand of the very same fish species jumped into a cloud and floated away!! bye bye!! you fish be careful where you jump out. Say Hi to Jesus he's on a cloud somewhere here

[@vela-6]

I actually was in a frog storm in 2007. I'm not sure if there were any bodies of water around, but we were in an unfamiliar place, so maybe. It was strange though. All of the frogs were very small and white, and there were probably thousands of them. There was also normal rain and strong winds. We kind of assumed it was hail until they started hopping around on our car and we stopped to look at it. In our drive, we definitely killed many of these poor things, but I'm sure most were dying from hitting the ground anyway.

[@UnderrRBLX]

yo weather report

[@lt1107]

Hello, I know your post is 2 years old but I have just come across it. Just outside of Ottowa, Canada in the summer of 1976 - I was visiting my brother (from the UK) and he was moving house. He hired a van and we then had to travel a couple of hours through a really bad thunder and lightening storm to get to his new home. The rain was really bad and it was hard to see even the road ahead, then it sounded like it was hailing and we were worried that the windscreen would break! Suddenly there was blood all over the window and we stopped suddenly and were scared stiff. It was actually raining frogs and there were thousands of them both alive and dead and squashed!! This is 100% true and I don’t care if people don’t believe us, we were there and we saw it - before this, I had not ever heard that this could even happen!

[@CrybabyArtist]

good eatin! you don't even have to have a moving day pizza!

[@SabrinasChannel]

I'm so glad to see you are still doing videos. I enjoy your informative videos, you're a great teacher.. I'm not sure what happened to you on crash course, but it's not the same. 😙

[@worstcasualgamer2317]

I experienced frog rain in my small town in Central Asia. Although I only saw an aftermath, my aunt told me that it was normal in that area. Frogs were very small and all over the place, it was hard to walk without stepping on one or two.

[@qxye5131]

Everything is a jojo reference

[@Karitolbe]

I really appreciate that you mentioned Honduras and even pronounced it kinda right. Thank you. Fish don't rain here, but rather, rivers overflow after downpours and some fish are left behind after the river goes back to its normal state. But yeah, people go crazy and say that they actually came from the clouds and get over hyped xddd, it's become kind of a tradition here:)

[@jeffreybernath6627]

No sharknado reference? Tasteful.

[@ajaynair7475]

'It's raining cats and dogs' have a new meaning now.

[@Killerqueen2000]

Weather reportooo

[@cheaterman49]

That move though, Hank! I mean - IMHO it works much better as an advertisement if you get the answer wrong and learn from it than if you get it right :-P good job for doing that!

[@DavidoMartinez]

Jojo

[@paulburton8155]

I was always under the impression that it was tiny fertilised fish/frog eggs being evaporated up into the sky during intense heatwaves, trapped in the water vapours. Then the atmospheric pressure and moisture holds them for a while in clouds, while winds transport them hundreds of miles until their mass becomes too much and gravity (along with regular cloudburst and rainfall) see them drop back to the ground?

[@hiii7226]

weather report control weather

[@MediaCoastline]

This is the best video I've ever seen

[@Xenos_hive]

The glow cloud?

[@ToryuMau]

xenos hive ... *ALL HAIL* >)B^D

[@blacksun1239]

All Hail!!!

[@cevichegrace]

A L L H A I L

[@TheOne-yq6qk]

When I was little in Nigeria in Africa I used to see it rain little frozen fishes when it rains hard, some of them thaw right after landing in the warm water and just follow the stream of water. You have to really pay attention to notice it though, I thought it was normal but growing up I realised that it's far from normal, most people don't even notice it and don't believe me when I mention it.

[@Davidh41690]

'Probably' Yeah, science still can't explain why it's only one species, or why these aquatic creatures survive their journey.

[@doomdays101]

I believe the animals eggs are picked up and the animal grows in the cloud until too heavy to be held up by molecules of air . The tadpoles would be small enough to be clustered together which would be my reasoning for why it is only one species. A small water spout picks up a cluster of eggs . They grow in the sky until matured then fall out when they have exceeded the buoyancy of the water in the clouds.

[@Iron_Elite]

Is this a Jojo reference???

[@tinamclaughlin1991]

Nice vacation spot Hank! School up on learning weather there, but watch for the tide#

[@cubankobra3511]

@SciShow I’ve always wondered about whether domestic pets from different households can effectively communicate with each other if at all. Normally young animals learn effective communication skills from their parents and other adults. If many house pets are chosen very young, how do their communication skills develop and are they able to communicate with pets from other households?

[@joeren8948]

I’ve personally seen soft shell crabs, literally falling from the sky, during a thunderstorm. Have no explanation for it, but the entire town witnessed the event. If it was only soft shell crabs; nothing else, and that makes it even more mysterious.

[@Tom51359]

Its not bcus of water being lighter than nitrogen its bcus of latent heat property possessed by water due to which it can hold more heat than dry air nd thus the pressure is lower

[@justsomerandomperson]

The weather today will be showers of frogs...

[@lynnevega1976]

I couldn't handle it raining fish I have a deep, irrational fear of fish

[@Super-wx6br]

Aislyn Clark *blub blub*

[@ihatealmosteverythingequal820]

Thats quite bizarre