Reality nearly as wild as "Sharknado 2".

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"Sharknado 2: The Second One" premiered this summer to great social media fanfare. The film entertained viewers with wild and nonsensical weather that spawns tornadoes that pick up large amounts of ferocious sharks. These sharks not only can survive in the vortex, but they retain the ability to attack civilians.

While campy disaster films are not known for their scientific integrity, the film makes some interesting inaccuracies, but "Sharknado" fans who live in fear of a shark-filled tornado can rest easy: the idea still remains completely implausible.

However, the weather has been known to cause several head-scratching events, ranging from seemingly apocalyptic to downright bizarre, reports Courtney Spamer, staff writer for AccuWeather.com:

Animals raining from the sky. Many popular colloquiums suggest animals pouring from the sky--from cats and dogs all the way to men. These, though, remain in the same realm of possibility as a sharknado. Still, there have been at least four documented instances of frogs raining from the sky. The most recent occurrence was in 2005, in Odzaci, Serbia.

Whirling vortexes of fire. Firenadoes--also known as fire devils--are created when strong winds whip an active fire to create a vortex. "The heat of the fire rising through the air allows...

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