Tell us you haven’t noticed it:

The weather is coming at us weirder and with more 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.

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 these “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.

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

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

Clearly, the weather patterns have shifted in a way that bring 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 then 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).

Let us know what you’ve experienced. Last fall, before Thanksgiving, we drove to church with ice on our windshield. This is no big deal in most places, except that we were driving in Florida.

Temperatures in the Sunshine State can dip into the twenties (and did earlier this month), but not around Thanksgiving.

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.

At the same time Florida was shivering (at least in the northern half), up to five feet of snow was accumulating in parts of Western New York and Erie, Pennsylvania. 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 a podcaster barking about or against climate shifts, what God is trying to indicate is mostly lost in the rancor and tohubohu.

[resources: Sent To Earth and Future Events]

[See also: A Year of Extreme Weather]