This time it's nothing to do with the hand of Malvo – the sky is raining fish.
But in Mr. Murakami's world it also rains fish and cats talk, so it should be interesting to see the words translated into performance.
Or there's the time in Marksville, Louisiana, back in 1947, when it rained fish.
Waterspouts and tornadoes have been advanced as an explanation for instances of raining fish and other animals.
"We fished through the rain, we fished through nasty weather, and cooked [the catch] up at the end of the day.
"It might have helped handling tools in wet conditions," he said, such as fixing hunting weapons in the rain, or fishing with harpoons.
The storm that devastated Mexico's Pacific coast over the weekend regained strength Wednesday and became Hurricane Manuel, dumping rain on fishing villages on the coast of Sinaloa state.
The next few mornings at the Outpost, I spent happily horseback riding in the rain, salmon fishing in the fog and kayaking on the bay.
His countryman Alistair Cooke called it "a rain-soaked fishing village halfway between San Francisco and Alaska".
During his stay he saw rain, water, fish, a bird and the partial names of chemical elements inside the swirling print.
I make movies like that.' " Stanton says he always had an animator's sensibility: "I can't remember not thinking that my bike was cold in the rain, that fish are lonely in their bowl, that leaves are frightened of heights as they fall".
