Obviously an AI generated image.
True, the snow was no higher than the third floor of buildings. Sometimes nature is more amazing than AI.
"But not all the eye-popping images are real. Some A.I.-generated videos circulating on social media have shown apocalyptic scenes of snow rising to the tops of buildings several stories tall.
"Some of the clips feature “ridiculously unbelievable snow scenes” that were created with artificial intelligence, while some of the footage is probably authentic, said David Robinson, who leads the Global Snow Lab at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J.
"Andrey Stepanchuk, who lives in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and works for a local travel adventure company, also said some of the videos were not authentic. In reality, he said, the snow was rising no higher than the third floor of buildings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/weather/russia-city-snow-buried-kamchatka-petropavlovsk.html
https://www.dw.com/en/russia-snow-apocalypse-kamchatka-photos-pictures-snowstorm-victims/g-75580716
Here is a real video, that's still a lot of snow
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c8e5901727zo