Spiders rain from the sky in Australia AUSTRALIA (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - How's this for a forecast: Cloudy with the chance of spiders? That's life in one Australian town. Millions of tiny spiders recently fell from the sky in Australia, covering homes and farms with the creepy critters and silky threads. And get this, spider rain is not all that rare. Researchers say the baby arachnids use a technique called ballooning, climbing to high spots, then sending out a web that clumps together and then rains

By releasing a silky sail, spiders can “balloon” far distances—sometimes over entire oceans. | National Geographic