Not again!

Our raucous times include raucous weather.

Constantly, of late, it’s interesting out there.

There was this:

Is Christ to be found in it? (It’s not AI. Christ is to be found everywhere.)

Midsummer auroras are rare, but on the night of July 3-4 they blanketed the U.S., the display caused by what they call a CME strike, which sparked a strong G3–class geomagnetic storm. Rather interesting timing. (An omen, as the aurora borealis was the Great Sign of Fatima?)

There has been superheat. Truly.

As many died in France due to the recent sweltering temperatures as in the Venezuelan quakes.

But speaking of those quakes, this sky, over Caracas, followed days after:

There is lightning.

Hard to discern. It interrupted the consecration of schismatic bishops:

It also interrupted Fourth of July festivities in Washington, delaying a presidential address and chasing tens of thousands away:

And New York? It wasn’t lightning, but rather fireworks setting the Brooklyn Bridge (briefly) aflame.

Red skies? They are getting very curious.

There was Ohio over the weekend:

In June, following a severe evening thunderstorm, the sky over areas in northern Illinois like Crystal Lake turned an eerie, surreal shade of red, pink, and orange. Meteorologists noted that a combination of heavy post-storm water vapor and a specific sunset angle filtered the light to give the entire region a sci-fi look.

Are these really unusual or coming with frequency simply due to cellphone cameras and social media? (Answer: both.)

And red skies (along with all that superheat) back in New York:

Not quite as dramatic as a few years ago:

Does the redness thus imply spiritual blindness? Some believe it symbolizes the burden of sin.

It got a bit creepy back a couple months ago in Australia:

The most famous biblical reference to a red sky appears in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 16, verses 2 and 3. In this passage, Jesus is speaking to the Pharisees and Sadducees who had asked him for a sign from Heaven to prove his authority.

He responded by pointing out how easily they could interpret weather signs while remaining completely blind to spiritual ones. “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.”

Meditate on that.