A swarm of flying ants sweeping the UK today was so big it was mistaken for rain when it was picked up on the weather radar.
The Met Office's radar imagery picked up the cloud of ants, around 50 miles wide, over Kent and Sussex. Smaller swarms could be seen over London.
The critters were picked up as a spell of rain, with the Met Office later confessing: "It's not raining in London, Kent or Sussex, but our radar says otherwise." "The radar is actually picking up a swarm of flying ants across the southeast. "During the summer ants can take to the skies in a mass emergence usually on warm, humid and windless days flying ant day.” The Met Office then clarified that the ants "showed up as interference on our radar imagery" from its
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