{"id":1331948,"date":"2022-02-23T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1331948"},"modified":"2022-02-23T11:08:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:08:12","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-recent-storm-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-recent-storm-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Recent Storm In Wales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-a-recent-storm-in-wales%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1331948&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/9rv3t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a wave crashing into the coastline of Abergavenny, Wales, on Feb. 18.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The picture shows waves crashing on the coast of Sennen, Cornwall in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Storm Eunice, a deadly windstorm, struck Northern Europe over the Feb. 19 weekend, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/severe-weather\/storm-eunice-storm-dudley-uk-europe-winds-flooding\/1144745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Accuweather<\/a>. Wind gusts were measured at over 100 mph and killed at least 10 people, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/18\/world\/storm-eunice-landfall-weather-climate-intl-gbr\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/serena.cairns.1\/posts\/10221944081174734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> shared on Facebook Feb. 19 shows an aerial view of a large wave crashing on the coast of a seemingly small village, possibly a result of the recent windstorm. \u201cAbergavenny yesterday morning,\u201d the post\u2019s caption claims. Abergavenny is a town in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>However, the photo does not show the town of Abergavenny and was not taken during Storm Eunice. The town is located approximately 20 miles inland from the coast, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Abergavenny,+UK\/@51.7052061,-3.0727222,11z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x486e27e43a90123b:0x7df1b5eb2a20c6fa!8m2!3d51.8253812!4d-3.0194378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Maps<\/a>, seemingly making the caption\u2019s claim impossible.<\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search revealed the picture had originally been posted on the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornwalls.co.uk\/photos\/sennen-storm-splash-year-4323.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cornwall Guide<\/a> in 2014 with the title \u201cSennen Storm \u2013 Splash of the Year!\u201d The picture\u2019s location is tagged as Sennen Cove, which is approximately 263 miles from Abergavenny, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/Abergavenny\/Sennen+Cove,+Penzance,+UK\/@50.9147243,-6.2362648,7z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x486e27e43a90123b:0x7df1b5eb2a20c6fa!2m2!1d-3.019423!2d51.825366!1m5!1m1!1s0x486ab85cebc931d7:0xf66492af0bb1aa05!2m2!1d-5.7029873!2d50.0755813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a week after the much heralded storm, Hercules, battered the Cornish coast, the next storm system ploughed across the Atlantic unleashing its power on the first object it encountered,\u201d the post caption states, further identifying the location as <a href=\"https:\/\/southwestcoastphotos.com\/photo_13548785.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pedn-men-du<\/a>, between Sennen Cove and Land\u2019s End. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2017\/09\/07\/fact-check-is-hurricane-irma-the-most-powerful-atlantic-storm-on-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Is Hurricane Irma The \u2018Most Powerful\u2019 Atlantic Storm On Record?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Similar pictures of large waves crashing against the 200-foot Cornish cliff can be seen on the stock image website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-massive-storm-waves-cover-a-200ft-cliff-at-sennen-in-cornwall-114386338.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alamy<\/a> and in a 2015 article published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/gallery\/supertides-5223255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Daily Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a wave crashing into the coastline of Abergavenny, Wales, on Feb. 18.Verdict: False The picture shows waves crashing on the coast of Sennen,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}