Bizarre 'worm tornado' in New Jersey has scientists baffled

https://www.livescience.com ^ | April 03, 2021 | By Mindy Weisberger

[Red Badger]

Spring rains often bring scores of earthworms to the surface, where they writhe on top of soil and sidewalks. But recently, heavy rainfall in a town near New York City was followed by something a little more unusual: a wormnado.

A resident of Hoboken, New Jersey was out for a morning walk in a park near the Hudson River on March 25, when she spotted hundreds of worms spread along the walkway. The woman, who asked not to be identified, told Live Science that after her initial surprise she noticed something even more bizarre — a number of the worms had formed a cyclone-like shape, creating a spiral where the edge of the grass met the concrete.

The woman took photographs and sent them to Tiffanie Fisher, a member of the Hoboken City Council, who shared the images of the "tornado of worms" on Facebook. "Clearly worms come out after it rains but this is something I've never seen!" Fisher wrote in the post.

[Red Badger]

[al baby]

covidal warming

[Fido969]

Not nearly as bad as a shark tornado.

[monkeyshine]

[rfp1234]

Martin Luther would eat them for lunch.

[Red Badger]

With a good German Beer!.....................

[left that other site]

I see what you did there!

:-)

[Bell Bouy II]

Tiffanie Fisher yea OK Probaly never left NY or NJ so..........

pretty sure there is a s#!t-load she hasn’t seen

[M Kehoe]

Wait till they get a load of walking catfish. In the thousands.

Right about now on I75 (Alligator Alley).

5.56mm

[aces]

Yea dims are everywhere..

[DannyTN]

Or a snakenado which is both terrifying and hard to say.

[xp38]

wormnado is bait for sharknado

[lee martell]

“It’s A Sign!!”

[a fool in paradise]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvlohQWDKR8

[a fool in paradise]

ping

[oldasrocks]

They need a new GPS.

[Seruzawa]

[headstamp 2]

[[[Wait till they get a load of walking catfish. In the thousands.]]]

“It was so dry, even the catfish had ticks on them”.

[BenLurkin]

Cameo by LBJ as “the bus driver.”

[antidemoncrat]

Those were called sharknados so I guess this would be a wormnado.