Did an image shared widely in July 2025 show an authentic screenshot of a German weather forecast? No, that's not true: The image was edited to make it more dramatic. No lava appeared in the original footage.
The claim appeared in a June 30, 2025, post on X (archived here). It read:
Jeeeeezus, if you think the climate propaganda is strong in the UK...
Check out the fiery inferno hell shown on German TV.
Climate Change is a scam.
This is how the post appeared on X at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot by Lead Stories)
What looked like a snapshot of the weather forecast, however, was a digitally altered image. The original footage (archived here) aired by German public broadcaster ARD (archived here) two days earlier did not show lava on the screen behind the meteorologist -- only areas with higher temperatures illustrated with the use of orange and red:
(Source: YouTube screenshot by Lead Stories; the page was automatically translated from German to English by Chrome)
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