Category: Weather

  • The climate green screen

    The climate green screen

    Let’s talk about the weather.

    Not just talk about it—like the typical elevator banter, “hot enough for ya?”—but really talk about it. Because we all feel it. We all know it. It’s weird. It’s also kind of scary.

    Just last night, a tornado warning was issued for Washington, D.C. While the nation’s capital was spared the worst of a swirling twister, there was flooding, strong winds, and some eerie images—one in particular: a live shot of the White House glowing green. That famous greenish aura, the kind that shows up right before a tornado hits.

    That same night, floodwaters surged through parts of North Carolina. Wilmington, Delaware was being hit hard. Parts of Philadelphia were also dealing with flash floods and powerful winds. And all this came just days after that catastrophic flood in Texas.

    The amount of water that fell in that part of Texas? Equivalent to more than two days’ worth of what flows over Niagara Falls.

    Then, in New Mexico, just a few days later, a river rose more than 20 feet in 45 minutes. Harrowing images followed: houses being swept down the torrent. Just like Texas. Chicago? It received two months’ worth of rain—it’s being called a once in a 500 year event.

    Is it normal?

    Well, tornadoes have hit D.C. before—one famously struck during the War of 1812. We know North Carolina floods. We know Texas saw severe flooding in the 1980s. And sure, disasters happen. Weather does what weather does.

    But you feel it too, don’t you? This is different. Something’s off.

    It’s not just one big event, it’s that they’re stacking up like Pringles. Historic event after historic event, with barely a breath in between. We haven’t had a quiet stretch in a long while. If you haven’t noticed that by now, maybe you’re lucky. Or maybe you’re not looking.

    Now, we’ve got two sides of the narrative spinning at once. On one end, you’ve got the conspiracy thinkers saying cloud seeding has gone too far, that this is HAARP-level military weather control. Weather modification gone rogue.

    We do know that cloud seeding operations are real. They’re not fake news, and they’re happening now. We also know that there was a cloud seeding event in Texas on July 2nd. It was just 2 days before the July 4th flooding. However, Augustus Doricko who’s in charge of a company doing it, has been interviewed on Fox News and said that his seating operation is regulated by the state. And did not contribute to the flooding:

    On the other side, you’ve got the climate scientists saying this is exactly what they’ve warned us about for decades. That it’s happening.

    And the rest of us? The normies. The background characters. We’re standing in between the two ends, getting hammered by alerts, stories, photos, and raw panic deluged by the weather, but also overwhelmed by what (if anything) we can do about it.

    Call it the climate crisis. Call it the weather modification crisis. Either way, the debate is ongoing. But the question that should haunt us all is this:

    Are we just having a streak of bad luck? Or is something deeper happening?


    Just the other day, we reported on that study about the Southern Ocean current—the one that’s been slowing down since at least 2016, maybe earlier. Could that be the missing piece? Could it explain what’s going on?

    It all sounds a little too close to the plot of The Day After Tomorrow, doesn’t it?

    Or Art Bell and Whitley Strieber’s The Coming Global Superstorm, a book that inspired the film. Remember the premise? That the ocean currents could stop, or drastically slow, and that would shift weather permanently, triggering a new Ice Age.

    In the movie, it happened in 24 hours. Maybe real life isn’t that fast. But still the idea of a “quickening” doesn’t mean millions of years anymore. It might mean decades. Years. Or months.

    Back to the Southern Ocean for a moment because this part really matters. One of the key findings in that study was that surface water is sinking while deeper water is rising. That’s the problem. Or at least, one of the big ones. This reversal disrupts the natural balance and has a dangerous side effect: it brings ancient, carbon-rich waters—trapped deep below for centuries—up to the surface. And when that happens, it increases the amount of carbon being released into the atmosphere. We’re talking about water that hasn’t seen the light of day since long before industrial civilization. We have no real idea what happens when that kind of deep ocean memory is stirred. This is uncharted.

    One of our favorite youtubers, Mr. MBB333 has been on this for a long time. And yesterday, he made a lengthy live stream job, the documents, some of the changes going on across the planet. If you have the time, it’s really worth watching.

    And if that’s true, if Earth changes are truly unfolding right in front of us, then here’s the real kicker:

    Can we even stop it?

    Well, it’s certainly not stopping yet. And according to this video from a really good weather source that we enjoy watching another series of bad storms with flooding, it’s about to unfoldld.. from Max velocity:

    Or is this just one of those things that will happen no matter what? Whether humans helped speed it up or not?

  • Catastrophic flooding now hits New Mexico

    Catastrophic flooding now hits New Mexico

    Dramatic and catastrophic flash flooding took place yeaterday in New Mexico, and it is the third time across the country in a week.

    These picturess are from Ruidoso, where the water rose by 20 feet in just 30 minutes after heavy rain…washing away homes in the process.

    Notice a pattern yet?

  • Fear and loathing in the Southern sea

    Fear and loathing in the Southern sea

    Various news organizations are reporting that a major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history.. climatologists are calling a “catastrophic” and a tipping point in the global climate system.

    The change in current was reported by Spanish marine scientists at El Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona. Now there is scientific speculation about what it will do to the planet..

    MORE..

    The study’s main finding is both surprising and alarming: since 2016, a sustained increase in surface salinity has been detected across the Antartic Circumpolar Current. That  change in water composition suggests a change in the balance of the components the ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere. Fresher surface water close to the sea ice edge is being replaced by more saline waters.

    “We are witnessing a true change in ocean properties in the Southern Hemisphere—something we’ve never seen before. Climate models predict freshening  of surface wàters in the Southern Ocean, while we observe the opposite, an increase in salinity” explains Antonio Turiel, ICM-CSIC researcher and co-author of the study. “While the world is debating the potential collapse of the AMOC in the North Atlantic, we’re seeing that the Southern Ocean is drastically changing, as sea ice coverage declines and the upper ocean is becoming saltier. This could have unprecedented global climate impacts.”

    Here is the link to the full study..

  • Heartbreaking Texas flooding death toll emerges

    Heartbreaking Texas flooding death toll emerges

    (story image AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

    The UK DAILY MAIL is exclusively reporting Sunday night: Texas death toll from flooding will top 100..

    Texas‘s Division of Emergency Management predicted the number of dead as a result of catastrophic flooding in Kerrville on July 4 would top 100, Daily Mail can exclusively reveal. 

    In an email sent out Saturday, the state disaster office told partners the number of dead would surpass 100, two different sources confirmed to Daily Mail.

    The estimate of the dead is vastly different than the message state officials are projecting publicly, insisting that they are still searching for people who are alive, and refusing to say rescue efforts have shifted to recovery of remains. 

    There are images now being circulated by family of deceased.. the heartbreak is especially poignant as young children from Camp Mystic remain missing..

    Heavy rains and flooding remained a threat Sunday as the rescue efforts turned into a bitter recovery campaign of bodies in wreckage that was taken down river as the wall of water destroyed land..

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warns that flash flooding could still pose a danger for some regions over the next few days as “more heavy rainfall” is expected.

    Heavy rainfall could lead to flash flooding in the Big Country, Concho Valley, Central Texas and again in the City of Kerrville, where a majority of the destruction has been reported, Abbott said during a news conference today..

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    Debate is raging as to whether federal forecasters did not do enough to warn..

    Local officials have shifted the blame to the NWS, claiming the agency cost people lives. 

    Texas Emergency Management Chief W. Nim Kidd said the amount of rain that slammed the Hill Country and Concho Valley was drastically underestimated. 

    Dalton Rice, the city manager for Kerrville, Texas, said that communities were under prepared for the sheer amount of rainfall. 

    President Trump, who has called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be eliminated, deflected questions about the future of the agency on Sunday, just hours after he signed an emergency declaration directing federal resources to Texas. “FEMA is something we can talk about later, but right now they’re busy working so we’ll leave it at that,” he told reporters in New Jersey before flying back to Washington…

    DEVELOPING..

  • The Guadalupe River Disaster: A Rising Wall of Water and a Nation in Shock

    The Guadalupe River Disaster: A Rising Wall of Water and a Nation in Shock

    In the last 24 hours, something truly heartbreaking unfolded in Texas. The Guadalupe River rose with terrifying speed and force, sending a 20-foot wall of water surging through communities. Homes, vehicles, memories—all swept away. But worst of all, lives were lost, including those of innocent children, and many remain missing. Across the nation, hearts are heavy. The emotional weight of this tragedy has cast a somber shadow over the American spirit this summer.

    The situation is not just devastating it is also deeply unsettling. How did it happen so fast? How did something so deadly catch so many off guard?

    Some officials in Texas are pointing fingers at the National Weather Service, claiming that forecasts failed to reflect the severity of the storm.

    While flash flooding and heavy rain were predicted, no one expected rainfall amounts reaching up to 12 inches per hour, nor the river rising as dramatically as it did.

    We’ve all experienced moments when weather forecasts predict a monstrous storm or blizzard that never materializes. People laugh it off and say the forecasters were “crying wolf.”

    Over the last decade, NWS alerts have become increasingly intense—especially during hurricane season—with messaging that reads like a Stephen King horror novel: evacuate now or risk certain death.

    But this time in Texas, the opposite happened. There were no apocalyptic warnings. No sirens of doom. Just a sudden, overwhelming catastrophe.

    Should forecasters be held more accountable? Is there a future where weather services face civil or even criminal liability when disasters strike without sufficient warning? They are some interesting questions..

    To be fair, weather forecasting is not an exact science.

    Despite our reliance on computer models and sophisticated algorithms, there’s still human judgment involved by choosing between models, patterns, and trying to predict the correct algorithm that guesses tomorrow’s temps.

    Still, when you look at the radar imagery of how this storm formed, it feels almost unnatural. Some say it fuels belief in weather modification and geo-engineering conspiracies—and while that’s a rabbit hole of its own, it’s easy to understand why people are searching for explanations when faced with such chaos.

    It was the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry.. it clearly was more juiced up and packed more of a tremendous punch than forecasters foresaw..

    Flooding in Texas was linked to the convergence of two tropical moisture plumes, one from the eastern Pacific & another from the Gulf. This produced near-record high atmospheric moisture. Global precipitable water levels have been running 3rd-highest on record in recent months.

    And even today, it continues with more dire warnings being issued now..

    Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said Saturday the death toll includes 18 adults and nine children so far. Rescue crews have saved 850 uninjured people and another eight with injuries in addition to finding 27 bodies… THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS ARE GOING TO BE HEARTBREAKING..

    New flooding was reported along the San Gabriel River, the Brazos River, and Burnet County, all on the north and west sides of Austin… DEVELOPING..

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    Back in the late 1990s, Art Bell and Whitley Strieber warned of the “quickening” and the coming global superstorm. Their book inspired the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow.

    It’s now 2025, and while Al Gore’s forecasts of imminent planetary collapse didn’t unfold exactly as predicted, there’s no denying something is off about the weather.

    Something feels different.

    And maybe it has been for a long time.

    What makes it more troubling is that we probably can’t do a thing about it even if we tried..

    It is painfully clear is that people in Texas are suffering deeply right now.

    Let’s offer them more than just thoughts, let’s give them our compassion, our support, and our prayers.

    🙏 Pray for the families who lost loved ones.
    🙏 Pray for those still searching for missing children.
    🙏 Pray for the wounded—physically and emotionally.
    🙏 And may God have mercy on them all.

    And watch for real and true ways to donate and help.

  • The Flood: Who will save our children. Part 2

    The Flood: Who will save our children. Part 2

    The news this Fourth ofJuly in Texas could not be more unbearable to read..

    So many lives lost, unaccounted for.. so much misery from flooding with more rain set to hit the same areas..

    JULY 4TH CATASTROPHE IN TEXAS
    MASSIVE FLOODING
    12 INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR
    KIDS FROM CAMPS MISSING

    Widespread damage
    Camp Mystic ground zero

    Severe flooding has left at least 24 people dead in Kerr County, Texas, Sherrif Larry Leitha said at a news conference Friday night.

    There was also an additional fatality in Kendall County, but it’s not immediately clear if it is related to flooding, he said..

    In Comfort, TX, the water level rose from 3’ to 29’ in just 45 minutes…

    Reporting from CNN: School buses and trucks filled with rescued people drove into a reunification center in Ingram, Texas, on Friday as families reunited with their children from the nearby girls’ and boys’ camps. Search efforts remain underway for the over 20 people who remain unaccounted for from Camp Mystic, with helicopters, rescue boats and other units searching the surrounding areas.

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    As this unfolds, it is almost a sequel of the 1993 film THE FLOOD: WHO WILL SAVE OUR CHILDREN

    The summary of that film:

    In rural Comfort, Texas, the protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the buses even ride early to keep ahead, but the river rises too fast: the buses are caught, everybody must survive on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can’t cling on very long. Some kids break down in understandable panic, others prove true and unselfish courage, including Brad, the natural leader, every girl’s dream and the most boisterous of the pack, occasionally braving the rather totalitarian system. Worried parents fly in to the rescue center in a public school, where survivors and corpses are brought in, including that of Tonya Smith; her overprotective father heartlessly rebukes poor older brother Michael, an obedient kid who never gets a break and still is never good enough for his father’s praise, now even gets blamed for ‘failing’ to watch over his sisters, obviously brother Koons’s job, actually beyond human strength. A brave reporter can’t stand by idly as too many victims are still in desperate need for the military rescue crew to handle, but his own helicopter gets in trouble. The growing victims list and guilt feelings, even just for surviving when others didn’t, cause a flood of tears too…

    The movie is based on a real event that occurred on July 17, 1987. On that day, 43 people were taken by a flash flood in the Guadalupe River near the city of Comfort. It was the worst flood of the Guadalupe River since 1932..

    And now the 2025 event is occurring in real time..

    May God have mercy on all of those suffering.. and may those lost rest in peace..

  • LIGHT OF THE WORLD DAY! Let’s make July 8 a global holiday

    LIGHT OF THE WORLD DAY! Let’s make July 8 a global holiday

    This is the strange part of summer.. not yet the midsummer nightmare.. bright enough and hot enough for your mind to be fooled that daylight is already starting to …wane.

    Have you noticed.. the days are ALREADY getting shorter ? The best months of the year–at least for light and vitamin D–are April through June.. July begins that slow hot panic into autumn .. the nights are just increasingly inching towards dominance.. the darkness wins soon. Until then, enjoy these fleeting moments of light and bright..

  • The weather has always given us something to talk about .. now it’s become frightening.

    The weather has always given us something to talk about .. now it’s become frightening.

    Summer is officially here. That’s the good news.

    The bad news? The days are already getting shorter. But let’s put that aside for a second. The real bad news is just how wretched the weather has been. Now, this isn’t a weather blog—but we do talk about things that are frightening. And lately, the weather has been more terrifying than anything hitting the box office or streaming on Netflix.

    Just yesterday in North Dakota, a derecho swept through Bismarck. The tornadoes that came with it were compared to a Category 3 hurricane. People died. And some of the weather YouTubers I follow—like Max Velocity—were shaken. He openly wondered during a livestream if they had failed to save people. Not because of anything they did wrong, but because this kind of weather moves so fast, so brutally. Honestly, people like Ryan Hall and Max Velocity have become more important in moments like this than even the National Weather Service. They’re live, in real-time, doing everything they can to keep people informed and safe.

    But that’s the point. The fact that they’re this busy on YouTube, day after day, shows how active this year has been for dangerous weather. It used to be that these storms were “once in a lifetime” events. Now? It’s more like “once a week.”

    Here in the Northeast, it’s rained nearly every day since March. Sure, that technically ended the drought. But now we’re being set up for what could be a devastating heat wave. Some will say, “It’s summer, this is normal.” And yeah, sure—heat is normal. A lot of people even wish for it. But heat indexes of 115 to 120 degrees? That’s not just summer fun. That’s dangerous. Roads, buildings, and people are all going to bake.

    Weather has always been weird. It’s always been the go-to topic in elevators and small talk. But something about this stretch has felt different. More intense. And we’re not done yet—hurricane season is next. Let’s hope it’s quiet. Let’s hope nothing forms. Let’s hope, for once, that land gets spared.

    Because if the first part of summer has shown us anything, it’s that the atmosphere is on edge. And places that didn’t used to see tornadoes? They’re seeing them now. Regularly.

    Prayers and thoughts to those who lost everything last night. And here’s hoping the rest of summer gives us a break.

  • Cold Front at the NOAA: Red flag warning at the National Weather Service

    Cold Front at the NOAA: Red flag warning at the National Weather Service

    There will be disruptions and changes in the way that Americans get weather.. the NOAA and Weather.Gov websites will undoubtedly be affected… just as spring severe weather season is about to start. Maybe as early as next week in parts of the deep south..

    The Trump administration has begun terminations at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped for termination..

    More layoffs are possible Friday, one of the sources told CNN, potentially costing the weather, climate and environmental agency more than a thousand employees by the end of the week.

    Most divisions of the agency, which employs scientists and specialists in weather, oceans, biodiversity, climate and other research and planetary monitoring fields, were affected.

    The Washington POST is reporting that the terminations will affect satellite reading and other forecasting..

    A worker speaking to the UK GUARDIAN said it was ‘cruel and thoughtless.’

    Employees have also gone to Elon Musk’s X to speak out about the terminations..

    DEVELOPING.. as is spring weather and hurricane season..

  • Ending the year with #Fogvid24

    Ending the year with #Fogvid24

    As we close out another year, it seems we’re once again diving into an online frenzy of conspiracy chatter. This time, it revolves around reports of a peculiar weather anomaly affecting various parts of the globe.

    The Mysterious Fog.. across Earth.

    Thick fog has blanketed Ireland and other parts of the United Kingdom, while several states in the United States have also reported strange, dense fog formations. Florida, in particular, has allegedly been shrouded in this fog for weeks, leading some to dub it a “perpetual victim.” These reports have sparked widespread curiosity, with some dismissing it as a seasonal occurrence, while others dive deeper into speculative theories.

    Here’s some fun speculation on a Reddit thread.

    While meteorologists note that fog formations like these are not uncommon during certain times of the year due to specific atmospheric conditions, the sheer consistency and unusual behavior of this year’s fog have caught attention.

    The phenomenon seems to extend beyond the United States and the UK, with reports of persistent fog cropping up in other parts of the world. And that is what makes it more peculiar as it just seems to be a sudden global phenomenon

    The Conspiracy: “Chemical Fogs” and Illness..

    Here’s where things go down a rabbit hole.

    Adding fuel to the fire are claims linking these fog formations to a mysterious wave of illnesses. On X and other social media, people have reported experiencing sudden cold or flu-like symptoms shortly after brief exposure to what some are calling “chemical fogs.” These fogs are described as unusually thick and lingering, sparking suspicion and fear.

    Also, being flu season probably assists with those flu claims.

    Some conspiracy theorists have coined the term “Fogvid-24” to describe this phenomenon. Those allegedly affected report symptoms such as:

    Severe fatigue or unexplained loss of energy.

    Coughing, sneezing, and other respiratory issues.

    A sensation of general malaise that seems to appear without warning, claims say.

    Fog is a natural weather phenomenon often caused by temperature inversions, high humidity, and calm winds. In areas like Florida, where warm ocean currents collide with cooler air masses, fog can linger for extended periods.

    Health experts also emphasize that cold and flu-like symptoms are common during the winter months and are likely coincidental rather than a direct result of the fog itself.

    But until then it’s fogvid24. What an ending..