29.10.2012 - 20:44 [ Is Twitter Wrong? ]

Is that really a picture of Hurricane Sandy descending on New York?

No. … It’s actually a picture from 2011, of a thunderstorm over Manhattan during a tornado alert (which turned out to be uneventful in the end, although the US and other countries were struck with an unusually high number of tornados that year). The original source appears to be this Wall Street Journal article, and the picture was taken through a tinted window by a finance professional called Charles Menjivar (from his workplace, most likely – his current employers are situated pretty much where this picture looks to be taken from).