据信这一现象可能是由于附近某处的果园有小型的龙卷风出现，把苹果从地上或树上揪下来了。龙卷风像强力吸尘器一般，在能量消散前带着这些苹果飞了一段路，最后把苹果掉在了考文垂的大街上。

Another theory is that the apples could have fallen from the hold of a plane.

还有一种说法认为苹果是从路过的飞机上掉下来的。

Brian Meakins, 63, was stunned when he opened his front door and found his garden full of smashed apples. The retired forklift truck driver said: ‘At first I assumed kids must have thrown them because we do get the occasional egg and apple thrown but there’s way too many for that.’

63岁的退休叉车司机Brian Meakins表示，在他打开前门看见花园里一片狼藉满地砸碎的苹果时，简直是目瞪口呆。“我开始以为是淘气的孩子们捣乱，他们有时间会把鸡蛋或苹果丢到我们家院子里。不过这次看起来也太多了点！”

Jim Dale, senior meteorologist from British Weather Services, said the event was probably caused by ‘returning polar maritime air’.

英国气象服务的高级气象学家Jim Dale表示这场苹果雨很有可能是因为回流的极地海洋气团造成的。

‘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.

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