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A time-lapse video showing stormy weather and clouds descending is being shared on social media with a claim that it happened recently in Bengaluru, which witnessed heavy rainfall for nearly two days from 5 September.
However, this time-lapse video is not from Bengaluru. The video dates back to 2020 when a photographer, Kane Artie, captured a storm in Perth, Australia.
Several users on social media have shared this video, suggesting that it is of a "cloudburst that happened in Bengaluru."
Similar claims can be seen here and here.
We also received a query about this video on our WhatsApp tipline.
We divided the video into multiple keyframes on a video verification tool, InVid, and ran a reverse image search on some of them. This led us to a video uploaded by a weather forecasting channel, The Weather Channel, on 7 August 2020.
The video was titled 'Time-Lapse Shows Wrath of Severe Storm in Australia'.
Taking a cue, we looked for Artie's website, which mentions that he is a Perth-based landscape photographer who specialises in time-lapse and drone photography.
Then, we checked his Facebook page and found a longer version of the same video, which was uploaded on 25 February 2020.
Artie also posted a screenshot from this video on 5 August 2022.
In this post, the location was tagged as Perth, Australia, and the caption read, "This is just one of the shots from the storm time-lapse back in February 2020."
On comparing the viral clip with the original video, we found similarities.
Clearly, an old video from Australia is being falsely shared as a recent cloudburst captured in Bengaluru.
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