Autonemesis

I am highly skeptical of the news on Reuters today about megacryometeors. These are chunks of ice much larger than hailstones, which fall from a clear sky. Yeah, you're thinking ice collecting on and then falling from airplanes, and so am I, but the researchers say they've discounted that. See <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020927/sc_nm/science_climate_ice_dc_1" target="_blank">http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020927/sc_nm/science_climate_ice_dc_1</a>

I searched Google, and found exactly ONE search result for megacryometeor. It links to a Spanish-language page that seems to be associated with the "falls" mentioned in the Reuters articles. But it also has this little gem:

Small animals entrained in an updraft and flash-frozen at high altitude??! Come ON!! They cannot expect anyone to believe this.

Mageth

Actually, there've been several recorded cases of it "raining" fishes, frogs and perhaps other small animals.

<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/08/22/p23s3.htm" target="_blank">Here's one account.</a>

Autonemesis

But the "megacryometeors" fall from clear skies, according to the story I posted. Not just little fish, but cows and pickup trucks can fall from the sky if a tornado is near. But these things I'm mentioning are supposed to be clear weather phenomena.