We will also try to explain how it can rain frogs and fish, while Chris Hollins goes fishing for sharks and Carol Kirkwood attempts to see the inside of a cloud.

You don't go charging around like a lunatic trying to find out why if it happens to rain live frogs for three minutes in the Landing.

In the week's third big DVD release, a two-disc edition of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia" from New Line, it is raining frogs in California as the director trots frenetically around various sets in an excellent documentary included on the disc.

"I've seen it raining frogs from the skies during these storms."

"Raining frogs?"

Suddenly they all start singing the same song and later, as if in a biblical epic, it starts raining frogs.

"Coming as I do from a country where it is indeed raining frogs, and the locusts are indeed moving across the face of the land, I know what it's like when the plagues arrive, and they ain't here yet."

When it rained frogs in Kansas City in 1873, Scientific America concluded that it must have been caused by a tornado or other land-based storm, since there were no swamps or other bodies of water in the vicinity (Cerveny, 2006).