Apples fall from the sky over Coventry
Stunned motorists were forced to brake sharply to avoid the falling fruit, believed to be swept up by a vortex caused by freak weather conditions in Coventry.
目瞪口呆的駕駛者被迫急煞制，以避開掉下的水果，據信是因為高雲地利的反常天氣條件，造成一個漩渦捲走蘋果。
By Donna Bowater
3:18PM GMT 14 Dec 2011
Translation by Autumnson Blog
蘋果從高雲地利的天空掉下 照片：BPM媒體
An avalanche of more than 100 apples rained down over a main road in Keresley, Coventry on Monday night.
一大批超過100個蘋果週一晚上在高雲地利Keresley的主要道路如雨落下。
The street was left littered with apples after they pelted car windscreens and bonnets just after rush-hour.
繁忙時間剛過，它們投擲在汽車的擋風玻璃和引擎蓋，之後散落街道。
The bizarre downpour may have been caused by a current of air that lifted the fruit from a garden or orchard, releasing it over the junction of Keresley Road and Kelmscote Road.
離奇的蘋果大雨可能是由空氣流造成，它從花園或果園升起水果，在Keresley路和Kelmscote路的交界處放下。
One driver said: "The apples fell out of the sky as if out of nowhere. They were small and green and hit the bonnet hard.
一位司機說：“蘋果從天空的無有處跌下，它們小和綠色及打擊車頭蓋。
"There were other cars on the road at the time too and everyone had to stop their cars suddenly.
“當時道路上亦有其它車輛，而每個人都要突然停下車來。
"It wouldn't surprise me if some cars were damaged. I know the area well and there are no apple trees around."
“如果一些汽車被損壞，我不會感到吃驚。我熟悉這地區而周圍是沒有蘋果樹的。”
Yesterday, the smashed apples could still be seen up and down the 20-yard stretch of road.
昨天，碎爛的蘋果仍能看到，在道路的20碼伸展上落範圍。
Dave Meakins, a retired fork lift truck driver, said he thought the apples had been thrown as a prank by children.
"I honestly don't know where the apples could have come from," he said.
"I assumed kids must have thrown them because we do get the occasional egg and apple thrown but there's way too much for that.
"I would love to know where they came from."
Some said they thought the apples had fallen from a passing plane.
Keresley parish councillor Sandra Camwell said a freak black-out happened on the same road last year.
She said: "Strange things do happen in this part of the world. I think it's highly likely that apples did fall from the sky.
"We're in an area with a spooky history, where there have been witches for centuries, after all."
The Met Office said it was possible the apples had been scooped up by a tornado.
He said: "It's hypothetically possible that a tornado could have picked them up and that they were transported in turbulent air until they fell."
Jim Dale, senior meteorologist, from British Weather Services, said: "The weather we have at the moment is very volatile and we probably have more to come.
"Essentially these events are caused when a vortex of air, kind of like a mini tornado, lifts things off the ground rising up into the atmosphere until the air around it causes them to fall to earth again.
"Returning polar maritime air is such an unstable condition and it basically means air returning from the polar regions which is very unstable.
"We've all heard of the fish and frogs falling from the sky and apples is certainly unusual because they have some weight to them but it is not out of the realms of possibility."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8956076/Apples-fall-from-the-sky-over-Coventry.html
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