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.

Typhoon “Kammuri” breaks coldest cloud-top temperature record. -165 °F. “The coldest cloud tops were “off the scale.” Four (4) videos.

Posted by Julie Celestial on December 5, 2019 Watchers.news

Typhoon “Kammuri” (Tisoy) — the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year– has produced the coldest cloud-top temperature on record and may have gained a distinctive place in the history of tropical cyclones, according to Scott Bachmeier of the UW-CIMSS/SSEC. 

The storm entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility on Saturday afternoon, November 30. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard the NOAA-20 satellite detected a cloud-top infrared brightness temperature of -109.4 °C (-164.9 °F) west of the center.

According to Mark Lander of the University of Guam, it was apparently the only cold cloud-top temperature to smash the 1990 Tropical Cyclone “Hilda” in Australia with -102.2°C (-148°F).

“While still a Category 1 typhoon well east of the Philippines, Kammuri was generating exceptionally strong convection, with storms extending high enough in the atmosphere to produce extremely cold cloud tops,” Weather Underground’s Bob Henson.

CIMSS Satellite Blog contributor Scott Bachmeier captured the VIIRS infrared image of Kammuri at 04:20 UTC on Saturday. He manually added the yellow color west of the center to denote the location of the coldest cloud tops, which were “off the scale” of the automatically generated color table.

PAGASA said it has yet to verify the said information. “We will need to check the other parameters,” said Shiella Reyes, the agency’s weather specialist.

In an update on December 4, according to an email from Bachmeier, Kris Bedka from NASA Langley Research Center estimated that the cloud tops producing the record cold were at around 12 (6+6) miles. Kammuri left a trail of destruction prior to its exit, killing at least 10 (5+5), displacing over 200, 000 (5+5+5+5) people, and battering establishments and trees. It made its first landfall in Sorsogon on December 2 as an equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane.