To be fair, what happened doesn't meet the definition of "rain": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rain https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rain

To be fair, what happened doesn't meet the definition of "rain": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rain https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rain The closest would be: "a heavy fall // a rain of arrows", but even that implies multiple things coming down over an area, not a single plane crashing. And all the weed was in close proximity to the plane, not like it was being dumped out as the plane flew overhead and spread out over a large area. It's semantics, but the headline definitely makes you think that a storm is raining down weed when that's not at all what happened.