The video features a white Suzuki SUV, fruit crates outside a shop and what appear to be unusually large hailstones falling through the street. Shared widely from a Chinese account, the footage prompted reactions ranging from claims of divine warnings to comments describing it as an example of nature’s fury.
Fact-checks identified several signs that the footage was artificially generated. The hailstones display unrealistic physics, while signs visible in the video contain garbled text. There were also no matching weather reports from late August 2026 that supported the dramatic conditions shown in the footage.
India is struck by huge raindrops- hailstones the size of basketballs or larger (30-8-2026).🤯 pic.twitter.com/8SQalDuC2Q
— DG🎭 (@DanielGilr44222) August 30, 2026
The misleading video comes amid a season in which India has experienced real hail and heavy rainfall. Pune also recorded hail earlier in the year, causing crop damage. However, none of the reported weather conditions matched the exaggerated hailstorm depicted in the circulating video.
The combination of realistic-looking urban details and digitally generated weather effects helped the footage gain attention online. Its circulation highlights how AI-generated visuals can be presented as genuine weather incidents and spread widely before their authenticity is verified.
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