Blog note. Jesus indicated that ‘fearful sights’ (various natural disasters) would occur leading up to the time known as the Tribulation and Great Tribulation (a combined seven year period of great destruction on earth). Although these types of things have occurred in the past for centuries and thousands of years, they could be identified as the ‘season of the times’ due to the ferociousness of these events. They would be occurring in greater intensity, severity, frequency, size, duration, scope … just like the pains that a woman experiences in labor the farther along she is in the labor process. We are in the ‘season of the times’ that comes just before the seven (7) year Tribulation/Great Tribulation period
… And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. (Luke 21:11).
… And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (Luke 21:25)
… Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken; (Luke 21:26)
… This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2 Timothy 3:1)
Jesus is giving a series of prophecies about what to look for as the age of grace comes to a close. These verses are several of many such prophecies from throughout the Bible. 2017 was the worst year in recorded history for the intensity, frequency, severity, duration and occurrence of a large number of severe natural disasters worldwide. Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, torrential flooding, unprecedented wildfires in unusual places, devastating droughts, excessive/scorching heat setting records everywhere, record snowfalls in Europe and Russia. Snow in the Arabia. This list can go on. Most studied Eschatologists believe these ‘fearful sights’ and massive natural disasters are all part of the ‘CONVERGENCE’ of signs that this Biblical and prophetic age is closing. Most people who study prophecy are familiar with the routine reference(s) made that these things will be like a woman having labor pains, growing in intensity, frequency, size and duration.

July 2019 is now expected to be the Earth’s hottest month on record

Doyle Rice. USA TODAY•July 24, 2019

Fueled by record-breaking warmth in Europe, the U.S. and the Arctic and supercharged by global warming, scientists say July 2019 will be the hottest month for the Earth since records began in 1880.

In other words, of the past 1,675 months since January 1880 – during the administration of President Rutherford B. Hayes – July 2019 will likely be the hottest. 

Such extreme heat is a calling card of human-caused climate change: “Climate change made such a record hot month ‘far more likely,'” Penn State University climate scientist Michael Mann said in an email to USA TODAY.

The previous hottest month was July 2017. 

Though final official data won’t be available until early August, numerous scientists have weighed in with their predictions on Twitter:

“July is going to be the warmest month on record globally,” University of Oklahoma meteorologist Jason Furtado said. “That is a big deal.”

BAM Weather meteorologist Ryan Maue said, “July 2019 will be *hottest* month on record … up my odds to 90% likely.”

“Earth … (is) on track for (its) warmest July,” said Stefan Rahmstorf, head of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

According to data from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), nine of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2000, a trend that scientists have tied mainly to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, the Capital Weather Gang said.

Global warming, aka climate change, is caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal, which release heat-trapping greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

And 2019 is almost certain to end up as one of the three warmest years on record, NOAA said.

It’s been a brutally hot summer around the globe. Europe suffered through an intense heat wave in late June that saw the highest temperature ever recorded in France. The extreme heat in Europe contributed to the Earth’s hottest June on record.

And this past weekend, tens of millions of people across the United States were under heat alerts as temperatures in cities such as New York City, Little Rock and Memphis rocketed above 100 degrees.

Another heat wave is scorching Europe this week, and an all-time record high is possible in Paris and the United Kingdom on Thursday.

Heat waves are happening more frequently in large parts of Europe, Asia and Australia, experts say. As the world warms, scientists say there will be more – and hotter – heat waves.

A team of European climate scientists did a quick analysis of Europe’s June heat wave and found man-made warming made it at least five times more likely.

“Either of the two European heat waves this summer would have been remarkable in isolation,” Mann said. “But now we are seeing multiple episodes of record heat in a given summer. By mid-century, we will simply call these episodes ‘summer’ – if we continue on this trajectory.”