Recent heavy rainfall in Pakistan has resulted in the loss of lives and properties worth crores. Amid this, a video of a heavy cloudburst, supposedly from Jamshoro, a district located in the Sindh province of Pakistan, has gone viral on social media.
This 13-second video shows several layers of dark clouds bursting into rain over a road. People shared the video with captions like: "Video showing storm Cloudburst over Jamshoro yesterday. Sindh broke the record of the heaviest rainfall ever in one single day — after receiving more than 355mm breaking the previous record of 238 mm — said Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman on Friday."
Archived versions of some similar claims can be seen here and here. AFWA's investigation found these visuals are more than two-years-old and not from Pakistan at all.
A reverse search of the keyframes from the viral clip led us to the video uploaded to an Instagram page named "Kaneartie Photography" on August 1.
Although the caption did not state any details regarding the location or time of this video, we noticed the "perthstorm" hashtag in it. Perth is one of the major cities in Australia.
Subsequent keyword searches took us to the Facebook page of Kane Artie Photography where we found a photo of the cloudburst with a caption, “This is just one of the shots from the storm Timelapse back in February 2020. When these...
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