Extreme Weather and Events (Signs of the Times)
Although we are not in the Great Tribulation yet, a time that I feel is close at hand, some events that are occurring globally are definitely signs of the times...
1. Severe Climatic Changes
we only need to have paid attention to the news in 2010 to see that this has been the case.
see:
http://www.yourdiscovery.com/web/goodbye-2010-hello-2011/photo/extreme-weather-from-2010/
and
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/2010-deadliest-for-natural-disasters-in-a-generation/article1843950/
2. Massive Earthquakes
Haiti's earthquake death toll revised to at least 250,000
Haiti's devastating January earthquake killed between 250,000 and 300,000 people, the head of the United Nations mission in the country has said, at least 30,000 more than previously thought.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7621756/Haitis-earthquake-death-toll-revised-to-at-least-250000.html
Death Toll Rises from Massive Chile Quake - ( 8.8 Quake)
One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile on Saturday and sent a tsunami racing halfway around the world...
...The magnitude-8.8 quake was felt as far away as Sao Paulo in Brazil - 1,800 miles to the east. The full extent of damage remained unclear as scores of aftershocks - one nearly as powerful as Haiti's devastating Jan. 12 earthquake - shuddered across the disaster-prone Andean nation.
An 8.8 earthquake is more powerful than the largest nuclear bomb ever tested, officials told CBS News.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/27/world/main6249181.shtml
3. Rains fall and flood many lands
Epic Floods of 2010 (Global)
Too many to post, but I kept track of it here:
http://the-christians-forum.com/topic/3494463/1/
There were way too many global flooding events this year to keep up with all of it, but view the thread and see what came to pass concerning it.
4. Blizzards and Extreme Cold
Europe - 'Coldest winter in over 300 years'
Brace yourselves for a 'mini ice age': This winter set to be coldest in 300 YEARS
By FIONA MACRAE
Last updated at 3:06 AM on 30th December 2010
If you thought last week was as cold as you could bear it, brace yourself. Forecasters say the worst is yet to come, and this winter could be the harshest since the Thames froze over more than three centuries ago.
Temperatures for December are the coldest on record...
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342515/UK-snow-big-freeze-weather-means-winter-set-coldest-300-YEARS.html#ixzz19ZNIfcJR
Sunday's snowfall produced a record for the Atlantic City region
Updated: 11:02 am, Tue Dec 28, 2010.
By DAN GOOD Staff Writer | 0 comments
Sunday's snowfall total marks a record for the region - most snow dumped in southern New Jersey by one storm in more than a century.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/features7/article_e11385fe-1210-11e0-9237-001cc4c002e0.html
5. Extreme Heat
Moscow's landmarks, including the Kremlin and St Basil's Cathedral, are shrouded in
a thick, acrid haze Photo: AP
Muscovites Flee Worst Heat 'in 1,000 Years'; Death Rate Doubles
Muscovites fled the Russian capital in record numbers as extreme heat combined with acrid smoke from wildfires, slowing trading on the city's main stock exchange and emptying restaurants.
More than 104,400 people flew out of Moscow yesterday, topping the previous 2010 record of 101,000, according to the Federal Air Transportation Agency. On Aug. 7, 95,000 left the city by plane, 20 percent more than the year-earlier date, agency spokesman Sergei Izvolsky said by telephone today.
Moscow set a daily heat record of 35.5 degrees Celsius (95.5 degrees Fahrenheit) today, the seventh such record this month and the 19th of the summer, said Tatyana Pozdnyakova, a spokeswoman for the city's weather service. The city reached 38.2 degrees Celsius, the highest ever, on July 29.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-09/muscovites-flee-russian-capital-as-smog-from-wildfires-doubles-death-rate.html
6. Hurricanes
The USA remained largely unscathed by hurricanes this year, but that is not the case for other parts of the world this year.
7. Drought
Millions short of water as drought hits eastern China
Beijing, Dec 30 (IANS) A severe drought in China's eastern Shandong province has left tens of thousands of people short of drinking water and dried up vast swathes of farmland.
The drought, worst in 50 years, has left some 240,000 people short of drinking water. It also hit about 1.84 million hectares of cropland, Xinhua reported citing authorities.
http://www.sify.com/news/millions-short-of-water-as-drought-hits-eastern-china-news-international-km4kubhcdbf.html
Worst Drought in 50 Years Grips E. China's Shandong
http://english.cri.cn/6909/2010/12/29/1461s612547.htm