{"id":141829,"date":"2023-01-03T19:49:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T14:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=141829"},"modified":"2023-01-04T00:31:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:01:03","slug":"no-snowfall-in-mecca-viral-video-is-digitally-altered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-snowfall-in-mecca-viral-video-is-digitally-altered\/","title":{"rendered":"No snowfall in Mecca, viral video is digitally altered"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) of the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia predicted heavy snowfall in the country’s northern regions and heavy rainfall in the Makkah-Medina region on January 1, 2023<\/a>. In this context, social Media users have shared a video of Al-masjid Al-haram, the great mosque of Mecca, claiming there was heavy snowfall in Mecca for the very first time.<\/p>\n

A user named ‘Shahavaj Anjum’ tweeted the video with the caption ‘For the first time in history it snowed in Mecca Sharif on 1,1,2023 Subhan Allah’.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Shahavaj Anjum’s (@ShahavajAnjum) January 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another Twitter handle, ‘@IslamYarZadran2’, shared the same video with the claim that it was snowing in Mecca. The video had over 68,000 views at the time of the writing of this article. (Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Islam Yar Zadran (@IslamYarZadran2) January 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On Facebook, a user named Majeed Wesa shared this video with the same claim; it has over 7,000 views. (Archived link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Posted by Mustafa Haidary<\/a> on Sunday, 1 January 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The video is viral on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> with thousands of people viewing and re-sharing it with the very same claim.<\/p>\n

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Alt News also received requests on its Whatsapp helpline number (7600011160) to check the veracity of the video.<\/p>\n

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Fact Check<\/h4>\n

A simple keyword search on Google with \u201cSnowfall in Mecca\u201d <\/i>took us to <\/i>an article in the online portal of Khaleej Times<\/a> which clarified this video was fake and digitally altered.<\/p>\n

Digging further, we found the official spokesperson <\/a>of the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) tweeting the video and saying that it was false and edited with additional effects.<\/p>\n

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A weather forecast platform Arabian Weather SA <\/a>\u00a0also tweeted the video saying that the video was ‘technically modified using filters’.<\/p>\n

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We also checked the weather forecast of Mecca for January 1st 2023 on Accuweather<\/a>. As shown in the website, the highest temperature on the day was 29 Degrees and the lowest was 17 Degrees. These temperatures are not suitable for snowfall.<\/p>\n

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Hence, the video that is circulating on social media with the claim of snowfall in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is actually a digitally altered video as the weather reports show no record of snow in the region.<\/p>\n

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Vansh Shah is an intern with Alt News.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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