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A photo has been shared hundreds of times on multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter which claim it shows “Catatumbo lightning”, an atmospheric phenomenon that occurs in Venezuela. The claim is false. The photo was actually taken in Greece; the photographer who took the image has said it is a sum of 70 consequent lightning photos”.
The image was published on December 4, 2020, here by a Facebook page with more than two million followers. The post has been shared more than 250 times.
The post’s caption reads: “Catatumbo lightning is an atmospheric phenomenon which occurs over the mouth of the Catatumbo river where it empties into Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela.”