Storms, tornados, waterspouts, and other related weather phenomena simply do not pick and choose what they are going to pick up and hurl around. Then you have to account for instances where there are no storms reported. Obviously this would be pretty noticeable to any witness if it involved winds strong enough to lift up and send animals airborne. Even a small snake would require a large amount of wind power to send it completely airborne for any appreciable amount of time. This is hard to reconcile with flying snake sightings that make no mention of such weather or even describe clear weather.

If one is to accept the storm hypothesis in these cases, then they are leaving the door open to the idea of stealthy storms that willfully choose to pick up only snakes, which is rather absurd.

Then you have descriptions of snakes flying in a fairly linear manner, or even vertically straight up into the air, and the storm explanation falls apart even more. A snake being thrown around through the air by a storm would likely look less like a snake flying under its own power in a controlled manner and more like, well, a snake getting flung about by a storm.

Now, I’m not saying that these reports are necessarily actual cases of flying snakes. There may be other mundane explanations to explore in the case of flying snakes, but I would say it is highly doubtful to me that they are the work of storms.

Personally, I find some basic underlying problems with the idea of self propelling flying (not gliding) snakes that show little sign of outward wings or something of the like, with regards to the biology, evolution, and physiology of such proposed organisms. I tend to think there may be some sort of animal (although not a literal flying snake) that originated the reports, but am also interested in other possibilities such as misidentification of known objects under strange circumstances. In the end, I just don’t know.

But storms? No.