Tell us you haven’t noticed it:

The weather is coming at us with more weirdness and intensity.

The L.A. fires are only part of it—though they came at the same time that freezing temperatures were causing shivers aplenty in Florida (even “snow days” in Tallahassee).

However cold in certain areas, 2024 joined 2023 as earth’s hottest years on record, marked by unprecedented rainfall extremes, including Dubai’s 75-year record rainfall in 24 hours and Spain’s historic floods that delivered thirty inches of rain in just 14 hours.

The weather, as we long have reported, is gyrating. It is a time of extremes.

There are suddenly all the “bomb cyclones,” whether on the West or East Coast. Climate swerves.

There are what they now label “atmospheric rivers”: tremendous volumes, as not seen before, at least with the current frequency. They mirror the tumult of our society.

There are droughts where it used to rain and precipitation in previously parched territories.

Call it hydroclimate whiplash–dramatic shifts between extremely wet and dry conditions

Clearly, the weather patterns have shifted in a way that brings roaring back the words Our Blessed Mother reportedly told seer Melanie Calvat at LaSalette, France:

“The seasons will be altered.”

Prescience?

“There will be thunderstorms which will shake cities,” she said.

Starting in the 1990s, meteorologists and climatologists, spotting temperature shifts in the global schema, began predicting the same: a shift in climate would do what we are now seeing on a daily basis: not just altering the mercury but sending rivers of moisture into the atmosphere, there to dump torrents of rain or mountains of snow.

Last December, authorities in France’s Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte said the death toll from a powerful cyclone was likely between several hundred and a few thousand. The cyclone, called Chido, hit land with wind speeds of 140 miles an hour, accompanied by storm surges between 13-28 feet (making a storm like “Milton” in Florida look convivial).

Global warming? Temperatures in the Sunshine State dipped into the twenties around Thanksgiving. In Washington, the inauguration of a new president had to be moved inside.

Meanwhile, dozens of luxury beachfront condos and hotels in Surfside, Bal Harbour, Miami Beach, and Sunny Isles have been found to be sinking into the ground at rates that were “unexpected,” with nearly seventy percent of the buildings in northern and central Sunny Isles affected, research by the University of Miami indicated.

Meantime, most of the autumn seemed outright salubrious in the usually chilled Northeast—until temperatures suddenly plummeted.

Such is the nature of our times: the weather is merely paralleling societal extremes.

Whether it’s “trans” men playing in women’s sports, or podcasters debating climate shifts, or billionaires raking in more billions, what God is trying to indicate (“The seasons will be altered”) is mostly lost in the tohubohu and rancor of the twenty-first century.

[resources: Sent To Earth and Future Events]

[See also: A Year of Extreme Weather]