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The Weirdest Weather Events of 2018 So Far

By Jon Erdman

June 28 2018 01:45 PM EDT

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We've already seen our share of winter storms, severe weather, cold outbreaks, flooding and droughts so far in 2018. But there are some weather events every year that are downright strange, and this year is no exception.

The events we consider strange are weather phenomena happening repeatedly in one place, in a place where you wouldn't think they would occur or during an unusual time of year. Some are phenomena you may not find in a Weather 101 textbook.

Here are some of weirdest weather events we've seen so far in 2018, in chronological order.

Freezing Rain in Florida

Just after New Year's Day, Winter Storm Grayson blanketed Tallahassee, Florida, with its first measurable snow since 1989, and the first January such occurrence, there, in records dating to 1885. That's eye-catching enough.  What was even more bizarre was seeing an ice accumulation map involving the Sunshine State. Up to a quarter inch of ice accumulation was measured in Lake City, and light icing on elevated surfaces was reported as far south as Levy County.

February 80s in New England

The heat in New England Feb. 20-21 was the "most extraordinary heat event to ever affect the Northeastern quadrant of the U.S. during the month of February, since official records began in the late 1800s," according to Weather Underground weather historian Christopher Burt. All-time state February heat records were tied or broken in eight states, including 77 degrees at Wells, Maine, 80 degrees at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 83 degrees at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and 80 degrees at Cincinnati's Lunken Airport. 

The Four-easters

Perhaps as payback for the summerlike February heat wave, four nor'easters – Winter Storms Riley, Quinn, Skylar and Toby – in three weeks brought misery to millions along the Eastern Seaboard in March 2018. Incredibly, a fifth low-pressure center was a bit too far offshore near the end of March to join the fearsome foursome from earlier in the month.

A Horseshoe Cloud

While the nor'easter parade was hammering the East Coast, a bizarre cloud was captured in video over Nevada in early March. As meteorologist Jonathan Belles explained, this rare horseshoe vortex is fleeting, lasting only minutes, when a relatively flat cloud moves over a column of rising air, which also gives the cloud some spin.

A State Record Hailstone

Alabama's notorious history of severe weather, particularly tornadoes, is well documented.  On March 19, however, it was a hailstone that captured meteorologists' attention. One softball-size hailstone near Cullman, Alabama, was found to set a new state record, more than 5 inches in diameter. 

Orange Snow

Just after spring officially arrived in late March, a plume of dust tapped by southerly winds from north Africa, lead to the sight of orange snow over parts of eastern Europe. While not unheard of, this particular orange snow event observed in parts of Russia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania and Moldova featured higher concentrations of dust than usual, according to the BBC. 

New U.S. Rainfall Record?

Less than eight months after Hurricane Harvey smashed a rainfall record for any U.S. tropical cyclone, a deluge in Hawaii appeared to have set another U.S. rain record. A location on the island of Kauai measured 49.69 inches of rain in just 24 hours from April 14-15. If that is verified, it would top the U.S. 24-hour rain record of 43 inches in Alvin, Texas, during Tropical Storm Claudette in July 1979.

Apriluary, Then a Record Warm May

The coldest April in 21 years for the Lower 48 states was followed by the hottest May, in NOAA records dating to 1895. Climate scientist Dr. Brian Brettschneider wrote this was the largest area of Earth to undergo a record cold-to-warm shift in consecutive months in the last 100 years.  Minneapolis-St. Paul went from its heaviest April snowstorm of record in mid-April to a Memorial Day high of 100 degrees in just six weeks.

New England Long-Track Tornado in May

A 36-mile long EF1 tornado May 4 in western and central New Hampshire was one of the longest on record in New England. As strange as an early-May tornado of any kind is in New Hampshire –  its typical peak tornado month is July – perhaps the most amazing aspect to this was how the tornado was discovered. The National Weather Service office in Gray, Maine, gathered public storm reports, then surveyed relatively remote parts of New Hampshire 10 days after the tornado to piece together its path.

Subtropical Cyclone Off Chile

The northeastern Pacific basin's hurricane season starts in mid-May. In early May 2018, however, a bizarre subtropical cyclone formed in the southeast Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Chile. This appeared to have been a first-of-its-kind storm to form over this typically colder stretch of the southeast Pacific Ocean, according to long-term records.   

Wildfire Spawns a Severe Thunderstorm

Lightning from thunderstorms can often trigger wildfires. On May 11, however, heat generated from the Mallard Fire southeast of Amarillo, Texas, generated not just a photogenic pyrocumulus cloud, but also triggered a severe thunderstorm that ended up dumping quarter-size hail in Wheeler County, Texas, just over 60 miles away.

Back-to-Back Middle East Tropical Cyclones in Unusual Locations 

In less than a week in May, a pair of tropical cyclones took unusual tracks in the Middle East. First, Tropical Cyclone Sagar tracked almost the entire length of the Gulf of Aden before landfalling in far western Somalia on May 19, the country's strongest and westernmost in records since the mid-1960s.  Six days later, Tropical Cyclone Mekunu moved ashore near Salalah, Oman, the first Category 3 landfall in southwest Oman in modern records, dumping over 24 inches of rain in four days in the city. 

Alberto is Pure Michigan

After a Memorial Day landfall in the Florida Panhandle, deep moist air and the lack of strong shearing winds kept what was once Subropical Storm Alberto's remnant circulation intact well inland, to the degree that NOAA's Weather Prediction Center didn't issue its final advisory until Alberto was just southwest of Alpena, Michigan, on May 31.  The only other tropical cyclone to have tracked within 75 miles of Alpena since the mid-20th century, according to NOAA, was Connie, as a tropical storm in August 1955.  As The Weather Channel senior meteorologist Stu Ostro pointed out, this was also a highly unusual track for May.

Two Wyoming EF3 Tornadoes in Less Than a Week

In the first six days of June, a pair of EF3 tornadoes tore through areas near Gillette and Laramie, Wyoming, the first F/EF3 or stronger tornadoes in the state since 1987. Wyoming's low population density typically minimizes the chance of a tornado hitting structures or even trees to allow the National Weather Service to rate a tornado. The June 6 tornado north of Laramie scoured grass from the ground, allowing the NWS to rate it EF3. 

Snow After Summer Arrives

Imagine shoveling snow five days after the summer solstice. This happened on June 26, when a storm off the coast of Newfoundland had just enough cold air to blanket parts of the island with snow, prompting plows to be called out. It was one of the latest-in-season snowfalls on record in Gander. Kids had to to trudge through snow during their last week of school before summer vacation.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been an incurable weather geek since a tornado narrowly missed his childhood home in Wisconsin at age 7. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

Conversations with Melchizedek – Fulfillment of Prophecy – Where do we go from here?

Unite and Fight or Fragment and Fold

It was a little over a year ago the Melchizedek prophecies began and forecast a series of unusual events in the immediate future including the beginning of a year of devastating weather anomalies beginning in August and September of 2017.

The intensity of weather patterns would defy all known forecasting models and techniques and a series of weather anomalies would shatter weather records throughout the world.

It would begin with devastating winds coming off the seas, not just resulting in record hurricanes but causing these huge storms to defy forecasting as well as physics and logic.

The assault of hurricanes since late summer certainly did that shattering records and performing incomprehensible physical deviations.  For example, the massive Gulf Coast Houston storm made two complete circles over the Houston area delaying its departure for two days and leaving behind staggering flood damage with flood waters measured in feet, not inches.

Then a series of hurricanes hit Florida and the East Coast after demolishing the islands and nations of the Caribbean, damage still trying to be fixed today.  As a powerful hurricane swept straight up the Florida peninsula a second hurricane stopped dead in the waters off New England while a third pushed them from behind.

Clearly the gods are angry.

Before the winds of destruction from the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Ocean had subsided a new assault from the winds exploded in flames in the west, and the State of California was in a fight for survival.  Wildfires struck with a vengeance catching the West Coast by surprise as the Santa Ana winds in Southern California and Diablo winds of Northern California began a brutal path of destruction in their march to the sea.

As the raging fires engulfed the west coast a bone chilling record cold swept over the Midwest and East Coast from Chicago to Atlanta to New England powered by Canadian Clippers Nor’ Easter, and Lake effect winds, accompanied by piercing temperature drops.  Much of the Eastern half of the nation was a frozen winter wonderland.

Then came the torrential rains in California and the fires of Hell scorching the landscape became massive floods and mudslides destroying anything in their path.  To this day we are still digging out from the mud.

We are now halfway through the year of strange weather anomalies Melchizedek warned us about, already reeling from a ten-fold increase in families seeking disaster aid, over $100 billion in federal disaster assistance, property damage of over $300 billion, with another $1 billion in damage from the California wildfires expected.

What next?

Melchizedek said the initial onslaught would shift to the “ground shaking” in ways not experienced in our lifetimes.  The North Korean nuclear tests have already resulted in unexpected earthquakes on the North Korea and China border.

He also said there would be a sign in the skies of Michigan that would stun the people and scientists with objects blazing a fire trail in the sky as they fall from the heavens and look as if they will crash into the Earth.  The extraordinary light would illuminate the darkness and be seen by many.

Just this morning there was the following headlines;

Earthquake-causing meteor leaves southeast Michigan residents awestruck

WINK News

2 mins · 

FLASH OF LIGHT: Experts say a bright light and what sounded like thunder in the sky above Michigan was a meteor. More: http://bit.ly/2mHzI6T

Have you ever seen anything like this?

A meteor exploded so close to Michigan that it shook houses and lit up the night sky

Witnesses from Chicago, Northern Indiana and Canada, all bordering Michigan, filmed it.  Was it a series of meteors hitting all at once or one huge meteor?  Forty miles from Detroit a 2.1 earthquake was triggered at the same moment.  Some witnesses say it crashed into Lake Michigan.

Is this the strange light from the heavens over Michigan Melchizedek foretold?  News reports today are filled with reports f the strange lights in the sky, the blazing trail toward earth, and a brilliant explosion that rocked the earth and caused a 2.1 earthquake.

Everything that has happened recently including unlikely side stories or shows like the EU referendum or Brexit vote in the UK, the stunning election upset by Trump, and the bizarre and threatening behavior of North Korea were also predicted, reported in advance, and happened.

What further remains?  More anomalies relating to the light show in Michigan.  We are transitioning into a period where the ground will be shaking all around the world with earthquakes in the Midwest US, China, India, and the Middle East.  There will be a great loss of lives in the coming storms and disasters.

By the time we reach September of 2018 everyone will be aware that what is taking place is far greater than odd weather cycles, than weather anomalies, than climate change could cause.

Earth has reached a critical point in spiritual evolution and has failed to see the light.  We are blinded by the gold of money and not the golden glow of the heart of the Father.  If we do not get back on track of our own volition, the growing veil of darkness will threaten to engulf the earth.

The war between right and wrong, good and evil, in the far reaches of the heavens will pill over into our planet, Earth, causing massive chaos, destruction, loss of life, and a breakdown of institutions.

You see, what happens on earth reverberates throughout the galaxies of Creation.  The failure of our governments and people to connect the dots between our actions and the spiritual consequences, will not be allow to take place by the universe.

Already underway is a massive infusion of the legions of Michael’s Angels into the Earth plane as well as the arrival of aliens from other worlds to battle the darkness and restore the spiritual evolution we have lost.

The battle could rage for decades.

This is not the End Times, though many may wish it was.  It will lead to a worldwide awakening that reminds us we are a small microcosm of the universes, where polarity thrives and a delicate balance must be restored to save the galaxies and inhabitants of all Creation.

The time has come to see through the Maya, the illusion, and seek out the truth.  The people on earth may be a hodge-podge of diverse sexes, cultures, religions, races, tribes, and jumbled ethnicity, but in the eyes of the Creator we are One, just like the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  We are One, humankind, to the Creator and those outside our little world.  Perhaps awareness of the dark side, the angels, and the aliens will help wake us up.

We must become One again, as we were in the beginning, so together we can save our world and the people living here.  In doing so we will fulfill our sacred covenant with the Creator, and do our part for the good not just of earth but all of Creation.

Your awakening and your help are desperately needed to save the planet and save the people, all the people.

Here are video reports of the incident that caused quite a commotion in social media.

Meteor sightings in Michigan: