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No, It's Not Raining Hail In Thailand. The Video Is From Australia

The video being shared is from Australia which reported hailstorms in 2019.

By - AFP | 25 April 2020 3:15 PM IST

A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim it shows a heavy hailstorm in Thailand's Chiang Rai province. The claim is false; the clip has circulated in reports about a hailstorm in Australia in November 2019.


The video was published here on Facebook on April 2, 2020. It has been viewed more than one hundred of thousand times and shared 4,600 times.

The one-minute 56-second video shows large hailstones falling onto a parked car on a street. 

Below is a screenshot of the misleading post:

Screenshot of the misleading post

The post's Thai-language caption translates to English as: "It's not a movie, not taken abroad but the incident happened in Chiang San district, Chiang Rai province today, another trouble in Thailand!!!?"

Chiang Rai is a province in northern Thailand.

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The same video was shared alongside a similar claim here, here and here.

The claim is false.

A reverse Google image search using video keyframes extracted with InVID-WeVerify, a video verification tool, found the same video published on YouTube by ViralHog, a US-based viral content site.

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The video, which has been viewed more than 47,000 times is titled "Surprise Hail Storm Smashes Car in Seconds || ViralHog".

The video's caption states: "Occurred on November 17, 2019 / Palmview, Queensland, Australia. A massive hail storm hit the Sunshine Coast. Within minutes cars were destroyed and $100,000's worth of damage was done to cars and homes."

Below is the screenshot of the video in the misleading post (L) and the YouTube video (R):

Screenshot of the video appeared in misleading post (L) and YouTube video (R)

A subsequent keyword search also found this report which included the video published on Australian news site 7news.com.au on November 18, 2019.

The article's headline reads: "Brisbane hail: Severe storms to smash parts of southeast Queensland".

Below is a screenshot of the article:

Screenshot of the article

The report credits the video to the Facebook account of Lisa Thomas, who told AFP via email on April 14, 2020: "Yes I filmed that video of my daughter's car. It was filmed on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. The video is licensed through ViralHog. "

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(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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