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  • 2021-07-27 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Image Show A Tornado Hitting A Rainbow? (en)
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  • An image shared on Facebook claims to show the result of a tornado colliding with a rainbow. Facebook/Screenshot Verdict: False The image is not a genuine photo of a tornado and rainbow colliding. It was created in Photoshop by an artist. Fact Check: The image, which has been shared over 130 times, shows a grassy field with a rainbow on the right side and what appears to be a tornado shaded with the colors of the rainbow on the left. A tornado hit a rainbow and this is what happened, text in the image states. The photo does not, however, show a genuine tornado colliding with a rainbow. Ohio University atmospheric scientist Dr. Jana Houser told Check Your Fact via email that it is 100% a photo shopped image. (RELATED: Viral Image Claims To Show Multiple Tornadoes Simultaneously Ripping Through Kansas) There is no possibility that a tornado can wrap up a rainbow as is being shown in this image, Houser said. Rainbows are formed by the refraction of water droplets as sunlight hits them at a relatively low angle. Well I have seen tornadoes and rainbows occurring at the same time, a tornado will never actually wrap in the rainbow light, so to speak. Real photos of rainbows near tornados have been included in reports by The Atlanta-Journal Constitution , San Francisco-based ABC 7 News and The Washington Post . None of the photos show a tornado that looks similar to the one in the Facebook post. A person can take a photo where the rainbow passes in front of the tornado, but it cannot ‘suck’ color into the circulation, Dr. William Gallus , professor of meteorology at Iowa State University said in an email to Check Your Fact. Through a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found the picture published by the now-defunct Primal Urge Magazine, according to the journal’s former website . The artwork in the magazine includes a watermark reading: Tornado Versus Rainbow, and is described as Digital Artwork by Corey Cowan (Photoshop manipulation). The piece was also included in a February 2019 list published by The Weather Channel titled, Fake and Overused Weather Photos: Avoid Sharing These Viral Images. (en)
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