Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Southern California firefighters battling wildfires in 100-degree temps with 9,000 acres scorched
- After battling blazes in triple-digit temperatures over the weekend in the eastern Los Angeles area, the FOX Forecast Center forecasts a brief and minor ease in heat for firefighters, but it won’t be long before Southern California is right back to the heat it experienced over the weekend.
- The NWS says it expects to issue more heat advisories beginning Friday as another round of heat is expected into the weekend.
- Over the weekend, at least four wildfires started in Southern California over the span of several hours, consuming more than 3,000 acres as temperatures there ranged from 100-105 degrees.
- On Tuesday, the containment of several fires was promising, even with 100-degree high temperatures still forecast in Riverside and Beaumont, California.
- Multiple fires continue to burn in Riverside County, according to CALFire, including the Rabbit Fire which has burned 8,283 acres. The fire started July 14 in Moreno Valley and is now 45% contained with over 1,500 firefighting personnel battling the blaze.
- The Gavilan Fire in Lake Mathews is 65% contained after burning nearly 340 acres and the Reche Fire is almost completely contained after burning more than 430 acres this weekend.
- The fires were fueled by dry and warm conditions as most of California has been under heat advisories and Excessive Heat Warnings over the past week. Several decades-old temperature records fell over the weekend, including at Lancaster Airport with 110 degrees, toppling the 109-degree record set in 1960.
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Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- More rain, storms heading to Northeast as wildfire smoke will make return to US
- The Northeast on Monday will receive a bit of a break from recent extreme flooding, but the chance for rain and thunderstorms will move in on Tuesday.
- There is also the setup for strong to severe storms stretching from the Midwest over the Ohio Valley.
- The areas most likely to experience severe weather Monday are centered around Iowa and Nebraska and Kentucky, Northern Tennessee, Southern Illinois and Southern Indiana.
- In the Northeast Tuesday, areas close to New York’s eastern border are likely to face a flash flood threat.
- Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada also will drift into a portion of the U.S. stretching from the Northern Plains into the East Coast over the next few days.
- Air quality alerts are in effect in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont on Monday.
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Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Canadian wildfire smoke blocking sun, causing solar panels to produce 50% less energy
- The eastern United States is having a lot of trouble producing enough “renewable” energy for itself ever since the Canadian wildfires first sparked.
- It turns out that all the smoke now blanketing the skies is preventing natural sunlight from reaching solar panels, which are said to be producing about 50 percent less energy as a result.
- According to reports, the solar farms that power New England are producing about 56 percent less energy at times of peak demand during the wildfires compared to before they began.
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Luke 21:25 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves
Important Takeaways:
- The smoke is expected to gradually blow away from the U.S. East Coast over the weekend, but the fires in Canada are still burning.
- According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, there are currently 426 active fires in the country.
- Of those fires, 232 are labeled as “out of control.” Just 112 are marked as “under control,” while another 82 are “being held.” A fire being held means it is not moving but still not considered under control.
- Harsh weather conditions in Canada are fueling the fires and making it harder for firefighters to combat the flames. This isn’t likely to go away.
- The most recent outlook, published this week, said that the wildfire season this year is already “severe” and warned that current predictions “indicate the potential for continued higher-than-normal fire activity across most of the country throughout the 2023
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Luke 21:25 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves
Important Takeaways:
- Air quality concerns continue as Canadian wildfire smoke covers the Northeast
- The smoke in major metro areas, including New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., was expected to cause unhealthy air for all groups.
- The smoke in major metro areas, including Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., was expected to continue through the day and cause unhealthy air for all groups
- There are wildfires burning in the U.S., but the smoke that is affecting millions of people in the country is drifting south from Canada, where more than 400 wildfires were burning Wednesday, according to officials there.
- The city’s air quality sank to the worst in the world around 9 p.m. Tuesday, according to a ranking by IQAir, a Swiss site that monitors air quality in several major cities around the globe — and it remained in the No. 1 spot Wednesday
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Luke 21:11 “There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.”
Important Takeaways:
- Wildfires are burning away the West’s snow
- Researcher Stephanie Kampf’s team set out to determine whether more wildfires are burning at high elevations. The answer is unequivocally yes. And the consequences are dramatic: Snow in wildfire-burned areas is melting 18 to 24 days earlier than average.
- The snowpack is critical… it contributes 20% to 90% of surface water used for agriculture, energy production, aquatic species habitat and more.
- “What this study shows nicely is that fires are moving into places that we would think of as being more resistant because they’re cooler and wetter”
- The study also found that snow in burned areas contains less water
- Downstream water managers might need to prepare for an earlier melt-off that will contribute to reservoirs much earlier than needed.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- SoCal facing “precarious situation” as water levels hit historic lows
- They’re among more than 1,600 people who have exceeded their water budgets by 150% as the state faces a water and drought crisis exacerbated by climate change, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District spokesperson Mike McNutt told Axios on Tuesday evening.
- California is the the grip of an ongoing megadrought that led Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to expand a drought emergency declaration last October and officials in the south of the state to declare a water shortage emergency in April, restricting outdoor water usage.
- Federal officials have issued increasingly urgent warnings about the need to conserve water, especially in the U.S. West.
- Meanwhile, California remains prone to wildfires — and five large fires are currently burning across the state.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- A disastrous ‘megaflood’ flood in sunny and dry California? It’s happened before
- While intense droughts, wildfires and earthquakes are typically the main concern across the West, the study released Friday warned of another crisis looming in California: “Megafloods.”
- California has experienced severe floods throughout the 20th Century, including in 1969, 1986, and 1997. But a flood from farther in the past – the Great Flood of 1862 – is being eyed by researchers as the threat to California grows by the day.
- In fact, the UCLA researchers studying “megafloods” say such storms typically happen every 100-200 years.
- The Great Flood of 1862 would be much worse if it happened today
- The region that was underwater in 1862 is now home to many more people than it was then — it’s home to some of California’s fastest-growing cities including Bakersfield and Sacramento.
- Back then, the state’s population was about 500,000, but today it’s nearly 40 million.
- The resulting disaster would cause an estimated $1 trillion in damage, the biggest disaster in world history, they say.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- Europe reels as repeated heatwaves cause chaos
- Western Europe was battling Thursday to deal with the fallout from extreme heat and drought, with wildfires causing evacuations in France and Italian farmers losing up to 80% of their harvest due to severe drought.
- The Gironde fires had scorched 7,400 hectares of forest by Thursday afternoon and 10,000 people have been evacuated from the area. The fire has a 40-kilometer perimeter, which requires a lot of manpower to cover, according to Martin Guesperau, deputy commissioner for defense and security at the Nouvelle-Aquitaine prefecture.
- Drought has meant that the soil hasn’t been able to absorb any rainfall in recent storms, leading to flooding and landslides, according to Coldretti.
- Hail was “the most serious climatic event due to the irreversible damage it caused to the crops,” the association said, adding that “in a few minutes, it is able to destroy a whole year’s work.”
- The farming association estimates the damage to exceed 6 billion euros ($6.2 billion), equal to 10% of Italy’s annual agricultural production.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- ‘Monster’ wildfire incinerates French wine country: France desperately sends in reinforcement firefighters as ten thousand flee, while record drought helps kill tons of fish in Germany amid summer ‘extremes not seen before’
- More than 100 communes in France have seen their taps run completely dry amid dangerous water shortage
- Fleets of vans are ferrying bottled water to desperate communities in the ‘historic’ drought
- France is also tackling eight active wildfires that have scorched thousands of hectares in the hellish scenes
- The suffocating heat with no water relief is a story reflected across Europe, with Spain, Italy, Portugal and Germany also under emergency measures.
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