Tadpole Downpour: Who Says There are No Frogs in the Sky?

It’s  the start of rainy season in Japan, but of late, the sky of a remote town of the country was not altogether raining water; it was raining tadpoles!  As news reports had floated earlier, an office clerk in Nanao noticed an anomalous sound while it was heavily raining outside. Curious, he went outside only to be astonished at the sight of hundreds of baby frogs scattered on the windshields of parked cars and on the ground. Similar incidents across the town also surfaced.

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What must have caused the poor tadpoles to get transported into the air? Which were then normally brought back to the ground by gravity and by a heavy downpour. A waterspout, observers surmised, had picked up those amphibian creatures and eventually dropped them from the air when the turbulent water formation transpired. A waterspout is a nonsupercell tornado over water, and brings the water upward. It is however weaker than most of its land counterparts. But in the analysis of a local professional meteorologist, the waterspout scenario was unlikely. 

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Other logical explanations forwarded was that of a strong gust of wind having picked up this school of tadpoles from a pond and got carried from place to place,  before getting freed from the strong grip of the winds. But local weather reports  found no evidence of the occurrence of such winds, thus the incredibility of the theory. It was not caused by a weather condition, the meteorologist claimed, making this Japan incident remain enigmatic.

Similar incidents have been reported around the world however, but they were clearly observed and found to have been caused by the passing of whirlwinds over water that picked up frogs, fishes and other unlucky aquatic creatures.