How now, the signs of the times?
These we occasionally reckon, in these times of flux, extremism (in society and the sky), and gyrations.
Many felt unusual cold last winter. Now record heat is making us all but forget that.
Can anyone doubt the thermometer?
South Korea: 106.5°F — new national all-time record.
Salt Lake City: 109°F — new city all-time record.
Miles City, Montana: 115°F — new all-time record by 4°F.
Billings, Montana: 111°F — new all-time record.
Sheridan, Wyoming: 109°F — new all-time record in a series beginning in 1907.
Randolph, Utah: 100°F — new all-time record by 6°F.
Austria: 104.5°F — new national July record.
Japan: five straight days with at least one station reaching 104°F — longest such streak recorded.
Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina: 103.3°F — new local record.
Dozens of daily heat records were set across the eastern United States, Canada, Austria, Japan, and central Europe. In the Metro East/St. Louis region, heat-index readings reached approximately 120°F during July 26–28.
In New York and Boston, July 2 brought triple figures: 100 degrees.
And so it goes, precisely as meteorologists and climatologists (and not a few mystics) predicted back when we interviewed dozens of them in 1999.
The main question: when will we get it?
When will we realize the unusual nature of virtually everything?
Actually, that may be happening. The young seem to know something is up. Striking and in some cases stunning has been their interest in Christianity, including traditional Catholicism.
Ah yes Latin: it chases away the devil. In nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur (“At the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth”).
The hot air is not just what the mercury records. It is also seen in blazing skies.
Wildfires in Canada sent plumes of smoke that settle on cities like New York, not just visible but causing actual respiratory effects in the Upper Midwest and Northeast.
Wildfires likewise scorched major parts of France and Spain—there goes it goes again, that word “unprecedented.”
You hear it frequently these days.
104.5° Friday (7/31/26) in Austria?
The day before, in Bosnia-Hercegovina, in Mostar (near Medjugorje), 107.6 degrees. New June records were set in the U.K., Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, and numerous other countries.
It was Western Europe’s hottest June on record.
Here’s Greece:
Soon, we will feel the massive weather system called El Niño, for The Child, reaching a peak as it does around Christmas time.
[resources: Michael Brown’s book on coming weather events: Sent To Earth, Tower of Light, and Fear of Fire]
How now, the signs of the times?
These we occasionally reckon, in these times of flux, extremism (in society and the sky), and gyrations.
Many felt unusual cold last winter. Now record heat is making us all but forget that.
Can anyone doubt the thermometer?
South Korea: 106.5°F — new national all-time record.
Salt Lake City: 109°F — new city all-time record.
Miles City, Montana: 115°F — new all-time record by 4°F.
Billings, Montana: 111°F — new all-time record.
Sheridan, Wyoming: 109°F — new all-time record in a series beginning in 1907.
Randolph, Utah: 100°F — new all-time record by 6°F.
Austria: 104.5°F — new national July record.
Japan: five straight days with at least one station reaching 104°F — longest such streak recorded.
Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina: 103.3°F — new local record.
Dozens of daily heat records were set across the eastern United States, Canada, Austria, Japan, and central Europe. In the Metro East/St. Louis region, heat-index readings reached approximately 120°F during July 26–28.
In New Yorkm and Boston, July 2 brought triple figures: 100 degrees.
And so it goes, precisely as meteorologists and climatologists (and not a few mystics) predicted back when we interviewed dozens of them in 1999.
The main question: when will we get it?
When will we realize the unusual nature of virtually everything?
Actually, that may be happening. The young seem to know something is up. Striking and in some cases stunning has been their interest in Christianity, including traditional Catholicism.
Ah yes Latin: it chases away the devil. In nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur (“At the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth”).
The hot air is not just what the mercury records. It is also seen in blazing skies.
Wildfires in Canada sent plumes of smoke that settle on cities like New York, not just visible but causing actual respiratory effects in the Upper Midwest and Northeast.
Wildfires likewise scorched major parts of France and Spain—there goes i goes again, that word “unprecedented.”
You hear it frequently these days.
104.5° Friday (7/31/26) in Austria?
The day before, in Bosnia-Hercegovina, in Mostar (near Medjugorje), 107.6 degrees. New June records were set in the U.K., Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, and numerous other countries. Yet there was also record rain (in the Northeast).
It was Western Europe’s hottest June on record.
Here’s Greece:
Soon, we will feel the massive weather system called El Niño, for The Child, reaching a peak as it does around Christmas time.
[resources: Michael Brown’s book on coming weather events: Sent To Earth, Tower of Light, and Fear of Fire]
