Over the past few years, weather patterns all over the planet have been going completely insane, and now it is happening again.

It is very rare for an atmospheric river and a “bomb cyclone” to occur simultaneously, but that is precisely what we are witnessing…

The arrival of an atmospheric river – a long, narrow band of heavy moisture from the tropics – coincides with conditions in the Pacific where a polar air mass collides with a tropical air mass, causing the atmospheric pressure to drop quickly. Meteorologists call such low-pressure systems a bomb cyclogenesis, bombogenesis, or a bomb cyclone, which intensifies the storm and increases its winds.

It would be bad enough to be facing an atmospheric river and a “bomb cyclone” at the same time, but it turns out that both of them are also immensely powerful.

According to meteorologist Ryan Maue, this is a “Category 5 atmospheric river”, and the central pressure of the “bomb cyclone” will drop so low that it will be “similar” to a Category 4 hurricane…

A massive “bomb cyclone” is set to explode off the U.S. West Coast with hurricane force winds, flooding rains, and enormous mountain snow from Category 5 atmospheric river.

Central pressure will fall almost 70 mb / 24 hours reaching 942 mb — similar to Category 4 hurricane.

I had a very difficult time processing that when I first read it.

We have never seen anything like this before.

Ryan Maue is a very highly respected meteorologist, and I have no reason to doubt what he is saying.

He is also telling us that approximately 20 trillion gallons of moisture will be dumped on the U.S. over the next week…

Just in the next 7-days from the “climate fueled” atmospheric river and mega “bomb cyclone”

8 Trillion gallons of precipitation will fall on California
5T on Oregon and 3T on Washington + 2.5T on Idaho

Pushing 20 Trillion gallons from this extreme event.

This has the potential to be a historic disaster.

According to Accuweather, it is being projected that the central pressure of the “bomb cyclone” will “crash from 29.53 inches (1000 mb) to at least 28.05 inches (950 mb) in 24 hours”…

The storm will strengthen so fast that it will fit into a special category of weather terminology known as a bomb cyclone. A storm, or cyclone, is essentially a giant spinning vacuum in the atmosphere. When a storm’s central pressure drops 0.71 of an inch of mercury inches (24 millibars) or more in 24 hours or less, it is considered to be a bomb cyclone.

“This storm’s central pressure is forecast to crash from 29.53 inches (1000 mb) to at least 28.05 inches (950 mb) in 24 hours, which is double the criteria for a bomb cyclone,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Heather Zehr said.

We have seen “bomb cyclones” before.

But I have never heard of a storm’s central pressure falling so fast that it actually doubles the criteria for a bomb cyclone.

That is nuts.

We are being told that the hardest hit areas along the west coast will be “between the San Francisco Bay area and Eureka, California”…

The heaviest impacts, classified by the University of California, San Diego as “extreme,” will be between the San Francisco Bay area and Eureka, California, according to WeatherNation. Strong impacts from the storm are expected as far north as central Oregon and as far south as Salinas, California. These include high winds, heavy rain, and the potential for flash flooding.

But that doesn’t mean that you will be able to relax if you live outside of the target zone.

For example, a blizzard warning has been issued for the Cascade mountains outside of Seattle…

The National Weather Service in Seattle issued a blizzard warning for the Cascade mountain passes starting Tuesday, cautioning residents and travelers of hazardous conditions set to begin on Tuesday afternoon.

The warning takes effect from 4 p.m. Tuesday until 10 a.m. Wednesday for elevations above 2,500 feet, and includes areas such as Hamilton, Concrete, Lyman, Morton and Darrington.

I think that this storm has the potential to do an enormous amount of economic damage.

Sadly, we just keep getting hit by highly destructive storms over and over again.

The number of “billion dollars disasters” reached an all-time record high in 2023, and it looks like we will set another new all-time record in 2024.

Many people are convinced that this is just a temporary phenomenon and that things will eventually return to normal.

Of course that is not true at all.

The truth is that we really are living in the end times, and natural disasters are going to continue to get even more powerful and even more destructive.

In fact, what we have been through so far is nothing compared to what is eventually coming.

So buckle up and try to enjoy the ride, because our planet and everything on it will be greatly shaken during the years ahead.

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The frequency of the earthquakes that we are witnessing off the coast of Washington is extremely alarming.

It is being reported that earlier this month there were “as many as 200 in a single hour”…

Scientists have detected a ‘great swarm’ of earthquakes off the coast of Washington clocking as many as 200 in a single hour during one day.

That is a lot of quakes!

According to one of the experts that has been monitoring this area, there were over 2,000 earthquakes in a single day…

“It’s about 10 times as active as it normally is,” said Jesse Hutchinson, a junior staff scientist with ONC, an ocean observation facility based at the University of Victoria.

He said more than 2,000 earthquakes had been detected in one day.

Why haven’t we heard more about this?

If I was living on the west coast, I would definitely want this to be in the news.

We are being told that this “great swarm” of earthquakes potentially means that a “magmatic rupture” is imminent…

The ‘great swarm’ of earthquakes followed multiple days of increasingly frequent quakes, according to Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), which is collecting the data for researchers to study.

The spike indicated a possible ‘impending magmatic rupture,’ the research group reported.

A magmatic rupture, which occurs when the Earth’s crust splits open for some reason and spills molten rock out, is a natural phenomena that can form new ocean floor, according to Zoe Krauss, a marine seismology PhD candidate at the University of Washington.

A “magmatic rupture” would not be a problem.

But what happens if this area continues to shake violently and eventually an extremely large earthquake is triggered along the Cascadia Subduction Zone?

As Popular Mechanics has accurately observed, that would create the sort of disaster that very few people would want to see…

In this case, there are two opposing forces: the North American Plate, an enormous tectonic plate that carries the entire continental United States on its back, versus the 90,000-square-mile Juan de Fuca Plate, located in the ocean off Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. For the past 200 million years, these two have been squaring off in an epic wrestling match in an area known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, or CSZ. Trust us, nobody wants to see the end of this round. Yet only a few people seem truly bothered: seismologists, emergency management professionals, and those who have experienced earthquakes before.

It’s certain that the Northwest will experience a devastating earthquake again, says Chris Goldfinger, an oceanographer at Oregon State University and one of the world’s leading experts on subduction zone earthquakes. “We have no idea of the timing and how urgent it is,” Goldfinger tells Pop Mech. “People tend to ignore it in that case.” The majority of the public, as well as most governments in the Northwest, aren’t yet pushing to implement the extensive infrastructure changes and early-warning communications systems needed to save tens of thousands of lives.

Such an earthquake could potentially create a colossal tsunami that is hundreds of feet high.

A tsunami of that magnitude would cause destruction on a scale that most of us cannot even imagine right now.

In 2015, the former head of FEMA’s Region X was quoted by the New Yorker as saying that “everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast”…

If the entire zone gives way at once, an event that seismologists call a full-margin rupture, the magnitude will be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2. That’s the very big one.

…By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”

In the Pacific Northwest, everything west of Interstate 5 covers some hundred and forty thousand square miles, including Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Salem (the capital city of Oregon), Olympia (the capital of Washington), and some seven million people.

It would be the greatest natural disaster in the entire recorded history of our nation up to that point.

Sadly, it is inevitable that great natural disasters will come.  Our planet is becoming so unstable, and we are seeing very strange things happen all over the globe.

For example, very long and very deep cracks in the ground have started to appear in Libya…

Unusually large and deep earth cracks have suddenly appeared in an agricultural region south of Tripoli, causing alarm among the local population. In response, the Libyan government has initiated an investigation and dispatched a specialized geological team from the Ministry of Local Governance to conduct thorough surveys of the affected areas, particularly focusing on agricultural lands.

Parallelly, the Libyan Ministry of Environment and their Environmental Affairs Monitoring Department in “Al-Sbeea” are taking the lead in overseeing and documenting the ground cracks. This concerted effort aims to compile a detailed report, which will serve as a critical tool in understanding the origins, implications, and potential risks posed by the fissures.

And we have reached a stage where we are constantly witnessing unusual shaking all over the globe.

Just yesterday, a magnitude 3.8 earthquake rattled a very large area in northern Israel…

Residents of northern and central Israel reported feeling an earthquake on Wednesday, Israeli media reported.

The Geological Institute reported that the earthquake felt by northern residents had a magnitude of 3.8 on the Richter scale, and occurred at a depth of approximately 17 km.

There were reports that the earthquake was felt in Tiberias, the Jordan Valley, Karmiel, Haifa, and the Hadera area. Some felt the earthquake even further south in areas such as Rehovot and Modi’in.

Today, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook the Fukushima prefecture in Japan made lots of headlines…

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 hit eastern Japan early on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

The epicentre of the earthquake was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, where strong tremors were recorded, the agency said, adding that a tsunami warning had not been issued.

As I discuss in my latest book entitled “Chaos”, I believe that we are entering the most tumultuous period in all of human history.

And natural disasters will be a big part of that.

If I was living on the west coast, I would be watching what is happening very closely.

Because one of these days disaster will finally strike, and large numbers of people living along the coast will needlessly die.

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