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RARE EF-2 TORNADO w a l k e d t h r o u g h m i d t o w n but in even more powerful forms.
STRIKES BENDIGO, Anchorage covering their faces The storm was preceded by It is written in Midrash Tanchuma,
VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA with their shirts, the Anchorage unseasonably warm tempe- homiletic teachings collected
The Australian Bureau of Daily News reported. ratures of around 29 degrees around the fifth century, that “just
Meteorology has confirmed that a Celsius. The relatively warm as God struck the Egyptians with
tornado near Bendigo, Victoria, EARTHQUAKES PRODUCE temperatures melted the hail- 10 plagues, so too He will strike
on 29 June 2019, was at least EF-2 VOLCANIC ACTIVITY stones as they fell to Earth, the enemies of the Jewish people
intensity with wind gusts in ACROSS THE GLOBE creating a river of ice and water. It at the time of the Redemption.”
excess of 200 km/h (124 mph). Earthquakes have caused may seem counterintuitive, but This concept was explained by
volcanic activity across the globe warm temperatures do not Rabbi Bahya ben Asher, a 13th-
The tornado flattened one house, during this week, near some of the prevent ice balls from raining century Spanish commentator,
snapped big trees in half and sent most potentially dangerous sites down. Hailstorms occur when who wrote, “In Egypt, God used
debris flying in multiple direc- on the planet. Volcanoes through- warm, moist air from the ground only part of His strength. When
tions but did not cause any out the world have felt the reper- rises upwards, forming showers the final Redemption comes, God
injuries. Tornadoes as strong as cussions of earthquakes during and storms. Temperatures higher will show much, much more of
this one are unusual this time of last Thursday 4 July 2019, as a up, even in summer, can get well His power.”
year, the Bureau said. rash of activity spread to the most below freezing, allowing ice
distant corners of the globe. The crystals to form along with The state governor, Enrique
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS Katla volcano in Iceland, Mount St something called “supercooled Alfaro, speculated that it was the
OF RESIDENTS IN JAPAN Helens in California, Kilauea in water” which then grows into warmer temperatures that he
ORDERED TO EVACUATE Hawaii and Etna on Sicily were pellets of ice. Air rises rapidly in attributed to climate change, that
FROM LANDSLIDE among those seeing increased severe thunderstorms, suspen- were responsible for the freak
Heavy rains prompted an evacu- activity. ding the hailstones and allowing storm. “I've never seen such
ation order for some 6 000 End Time Headlines them to expand in size. Even- scenes,” Alfaro tweeted. “Then
residents in 2 859 households in subscribe@endtimeheadlines.org tually, they get too heavy and fall we ask ourselves if climate
Ichikikushikino, Kagoshima Pre- to the ground. change is real.”
fecture, on Monday morning MEXICO'S SUMMER
1July 2019, as well as an evacua- HAILSTORM: AN ANOMALY For sceptics who do not believe In fact, if claims of climate change
tion advisory issued to more than EXPLAINED IN PROPHESY OF that all of Egypt, a notably arid prove to be true, the world may
1.21 million people in 550 000 PLAGUES IN EGYPT country, was hit by an ancient see the plague of hail return with
households in Miyazaki, Kuma- - Adam Eliyahu Berkowit plague of hailstones, this recent a vengeance. A study published
moto, and Kagoshima prefec- “God said to Moses, ‘Hold out appearance of extreme weather in New Scientist focused on the
tures as the Meteorological your arm toward the sky that hail graphically dispels this doubt, size of hailstones in recent
Agency warned of mudslides and may fall on all the land of Egypt, making a literal reading of the storms, since it is this aspect that
floods. upon man and beast and all the Bible more credible. This parti- generates the most devastation.
grasses of the field in the land of cular aspect of hail, its ability to The study theorized that both the
In the city of Kagoshima, a Egypt’” (Exodus 9:22). coexist with heat, was hinted at in size of individual hailstones and
woman in her 70s died after being the Biblical account of the the total mass that fails per storm
buried in mud up to her neck at A freak summer hailstorm in seventh plague that struck Egypt could increase if temperatures
her home in the Honjo district, Mexico buried a city under five that appeared with its elemental rise globally.
following a landslide on a feet of ice, leading scientists to opposite: fire. “The hail was very
mountain behind her house. ponder whether climate change heavy - fire flashing in the midst of “As the atmosphere warms, it
will lead to a reappearance of the the hail - such as had not fallen on holds more moisture. This means
RECORD-SMASHING seventh plague to a degree that the land of Egypt since it had more water can fall out of the sky
HEAT WAVE BAKES ALASKA could be even more destructive become a nation” (Exodus 9:24). when conditions are right, in the
Record-smashing heat has than what the Egyptians wit- form of rain, snow, hail or graupel
scorched Alaska over the past nessed before the Exodus. In fact, Jewish sources predict (snow pellets),” New Scientist
few days, and even worse heat is that all of the plagues will reported.
in store for the week ahead. On A hailstorm hit Guadalajara,
Saturday 29 June 2019, down- Mexico on Sunday 30 June 2019,
town Juneau, Alaska's capital burying the city in ice up to five
city, hit 28 degrees Celsius, feet thick. Authorities reported
breaking a record that had stood that more than 200 homes and
for 110 years. (High temperatures businesses were damaged and at
feel hotter in Alaska than at lower least 50 vehicles were swept
latitudes, since the sun is lower in away.
the sky and its rays hit a larger
portion of a person’s full torso.) Army and emergency services
personnel were called in to clear
The heat has also exacerbated a the streets overnight with heavy
wildfire near Anchorage that machinery and to support citizens
brought extremely smoky skies who suffered damage to their