text size: small medium large Internet weather hoaxes never seem to die. They might start as a joke from one friend to another but once they get forwarded and forwarded and posted on blogs and websites they take on a life of their own. At some point nobody knows the original sender and then people start embellishing the story. Here are some of the commonly circulating weather photo hoaxes. Some are pictures that were altered and others are real pictures but not associated with the weather or location that they claim to represent. Many of these have been going around for half a dozen years or more.
Follow these links to see the hoax photos and descriptions...
Texas
Oil Rig or Memphis Tornado Hoax photo location and event.You
can actually purchase a poster of the original
photo taken in the early 1990s.The original image is real and it has
a large waterspout, often confused with a tornado, and a lightning bolt
next to it. Hoax emails over the last 15 years have attributed this to
various tornado outbreaks.
Hurricane
Isabel Hoax photo location and event. The photo is a real base
of a thunderstorm over water but not related to a tropical storm or hurricane.
Hurricane
Lili Three Waterspouts Hoax photo altered. The original image
had one waterspout but somebody painted in two other spouts.
Amazing
Katrina Pictures Hoax photo location and event. The images are
real features of supercell thunderstorms but they are in no way related
to Katrina.
Katrina
Storm Surge Hoax location. The surge picture is real but it
is only a small portion of a real picture that was not taken in Waveland.
Mars
Hoax supposedly as big as the moon. NASA
debunks this Hoax too. The original email was taken out of context
The
Hands of God is a Hoax picture altered.
