Rain is rare enough in Lajamanu, a community in the arid Northern Territory outback 560 kilometres southwest of Katherine near the Tanami Desert, but what happened on Sunday night has been labelled an “act of god”.
The remote community, which you probably had to use Google Maps to find, made global headlines this week after small, live fish “rained from the sky” during a weather event on Sunday night.
“We’ve seen a big storm heading up to my community, and we thought it was just rain,” Andrew Johnson Japanangka Lajamanu, local and Central Desert councillor, told the ABC earlier this week that the community was expecting some nasty weather, but what happened next was totally unexpected.
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