An animated video of a twister hurtling over a seascape has been miscaptioned online as showing cyclone Biparjoy, a real storm that killed two people after hitting parts of western India and Pakistan in June 2023.
Examples of users sharing the clip as if showing cyclone Biparjoy can be seen on Facebook (here) and Twitter (here).
The video of the twister was first uploaded on August 9, 2022, with the caption: “Superior Tornado at the horizon” (here).
The video shows an animated tornado, first published in 2022.
It is unrelated to cyclone Biparjoy.
Persons:
Rostyslav Tsarov, Read
Organizations:
Reuters, Facebook, Twitter
Locations:
India, Pakistan