Padding the rain stats? Frog discovered living in Boston rain gauge

BOSTON - A meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Boston got quite the surprise Friday morning when she opened up the rain gauge to take the morning report, only to find a small green friend had gotten a jump on the data. 

"Don't worry, the frog was safely removed AND we got an accurate rainfall measurement," NWS Boston said, tallying 0.54 inches over the past 24 hours.

Of course, as the news leapt around social media, the Twitter peanut gallery had to weigh in.

"Did you issue a frog advisory?" wondered Sean Irwin.
"Does the measurement account for frog displacement?" asked @TellurianDigits

And of course, the most concerning to weather stat heads:

"What if it drank some?" asked @devondunphy. "I think an (asterisk) is needed in today's historical data log."

Forget raining cats and dogs…

Obviously it wasn't raining frogs in Boston -- at least we're pretty sure. But did you know there have been historical documented observations of it indeed raining frogs?

One such occurrence was in Calgary in 1921 when frogs rained on the city's 11th Avenue, according to Global News. The Library of Congress also details several similar incidents throughout history. 

How can this be? The idea is that a tornado or waterspout rolls over a pond or some body of water and sucks the frogs out of their watery habitat, eventually depositing them somewhere on land -- sometimes miles away!