Mega Drought 2026/World Record Heat.

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]May the 8th, 2026. Guys, in the last video, we talked about the Vera moment. And Vera was what uh Yemo was told to build in ancient Turkey.

[00:00:13]It had uh that city, there's many of them, but that one held about 22,000 people.

[00:00:19]And he was told to dig it just like Noah was told to build the ark because there was a long winter coming.

[00:00:25]We've got the same thing happening here, and the other day we looked at it from the financial aspect of it and what AI was doing to the banks and some of the big techs. But guys, the anthropic onslaught is continuing right now.

[00:00:40]You've got uh some big companies getting into the game. And what they're finding is a lot of uh open systems, in other words, that are easily hacked.

[00:00:51]And they're finding them quicker than they can patch them. And a lot of it's being created by AI anyway.

[00:00:58]But there we we'll talk about that in another video.

[00:01:02]And right now, if you look at CNBC, you can see that anthropic and Claude and some of those guys are scratching their heads. They're actually saying they're in panic over this new discovery.

[00:01:14]But what I want to do is move we're going to stay in the Vera moment. We'll call it the Vera moment part two.

[00:01:21]But looking away from the financial situation, which will cause the physical situation, but also Mother Nature has a hand in what's about to happen.

[00:01:33]Again, the Vera moment is explicitly implied in this video.

[00:01:39]Here's what's happening.

[00:01:41]You go back 3 days. As of May 5th, 2026, roughly 60.92% of the lower 48 states are experiencing drought conditions.

[00:01:52]A slight increase since last month.

[00:01:55]Approximately 153.3 million people in the US are currently affected by these conditions.

[00:02:03]And guys, we've got areas that we're getting in the drought situation, just like where we at now in central Mississippi, but the last few days including a few tornadoes, we've seen more and more rain and that's helping somewhat, but it I don't think it's going to be a deep soak. But other places are in trouble and especially the breadbasket, guys.

[00:02:25]It says, "While some areas have seen recent relief from heavy rainfall, others are facing significant degradation."

[00:02:33]Southeast and deep south, this region remains a primary hotspot for the most intense drought conditions.

[00:02:41]You've got what's called exceptional drought, a D4. It's particularly severe in Georgia, 33.3% and Florida's 24.9%.

[00:02:51]Extreme drought, which is a D3, is widespread across South Carolina, 73.9%, North Carolina's 53.8, and Louisiana is 50.2%.

[00:03:04]And again, we're talking about extreme drought.

[00:03:08]Some recent changes, there's been heavy rainfall, like I said here, over 2 in recently brought much needed relief to Mississippi and northern Alabama. Though severe to exceptional conditions are persistent in many areas.

[00:03:23]And the tornadoes are getting worse and they seem to be getting closer to our area. We've been hit twice in the last 2 years in our yard. And just a week ago during those tornadoes, a couple of limbs broke off, hit the top of the house, knocked power out to the next day. Things like that I've been noticing. And it's all got to do with increase in heat. What's happening with the tropical or intertropical convergence zone and what's happening with solar cycle 25 going into its peak.

[00:03:55]Says in the hot plains in the Midwest, Nebraska and Colorado are facing significant, which is extreme, D3 drought and exceptional D4 drought conditions. In the Midwest, conditions have generally improved due to prior wetness, although slight degradations were recently noted in southeastern Missouri and south-central Indiana. The reason is you got some rain, you had some storms.

[00:04:22]And now the dirt's trying to dry back up. That's that recent degradation.

[00:04:27]What we're getting to here in this Vera effect part two, guys, is we are again looking at food shortages, extreme food shortages, and we're seeing shipping and things like that uh being blocked. We're seeing the price of gas and diesel go up. That's going to increase the price of food. But what we may be seeing now is a lack of food.

[00:04:53]Arizona's seen substantial degradation due to recent hot dry weather. And because of what we're seeing with the increased solar cycle, guys, we're seeing even larger amounts of rainfall drought pretty quick.

[00:05:05]California saw a historic milestone earlier this year being declared completely drought-free in January of 2026 for the first time in 25 years.

[00:05:16]However, as of late April through roughly 55% of the state has returned to the D0 status, which is abnormally dry.

[00:05:26]That's just how quick it happens. When you got a lot of farmers and a lot of people, it really doesn't stop. And guys, the reservoirs on the Colorado River are starting to drop pretty good, too.

[00:05:38]But they're talking about major impacts and forecast that agriculture, the current drought severity a index called a DSC reached a record high for late April, posing a significant threat to cattle production and hay potential for 2026.

[00:05:56]As you realize, um what that's going to do to the cost of food in itself and the lack of it, it's already beyond belief. Some is over $20 a pound now for things like that. And when you see this, what you'll see is the farmer starting to sell off the cattle they cannot feed.

[00:06:20]And that scarcity jumps the prices straight up. Now, coming along with the drought, guys, is wildfires.

[00:06:28]And again, we were told this time it won't be by flood, it will be by fire.

[00:06:34]It says wildfires intense early wildfire seasons have already been reported in Georgia and Florida due to extreme dryness.

[00:06:42]I think we seen some in Texas, too.

[00:06:44]It says forecasters anticipate potential improvement in Texas and the lower Mississippi Valley through May. However, there is a risk of flash drought development in other regions over the next two to four weeks.

[00:06:58]Get ready.

[00:07:02]It says as of the first week of May 2026, planting success is currently measured by the pace of progress relative to historical averages.

[00:07:11]While the national crop progress report shows that farmers are planting faster than usual, the intensifying drought in the plains is raising serious concerns about eventual yields. Of course, if you don't get rain, you don't get a crop.

[00:07:28]It says the national planning progress for major row crops is generally ahead of the 5-year average as of May 4th.

[00:07:37]Remember, the farmers got some subsidized help from DC. That may be part of this.

[00:07:45]Corn is 38% planted nationwide, slightly ahead of the 34 to 36 five-year average.

[00:07:53]Soybeans are 33% planted, well ahead of the 20 uh 1% five-year average. Cotton is approximately 24% planted, matching historical norms for early May.

[00:08:06]Pay attention.

[00:08:09]Just while the pace of planting is successful, the conditions of crops already in the ground vary widely by region due to moisture levels.

[00:08:17]The Corn Belt through Iowa and Illinois, progress is strong with Illinois reporting corn emergence at 24%, doubling the previous week's rate.

[00:08:28]High Plains, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, planting is advancing, but topsoil moisture is critical. In Colorado, over 95% of topsoil is rated very short to short, creating a high risk of poor germination.

[00:08:44]Winter wheat, this crop is currently the most unsuccessful in terms of health.

[00:08:49]Only 31% is rated good to excellent condition, the lowest for the date in recent years. And guys, this is where the famine part starts to come into this uh very effect or this very moment. Says the USDA estimates that a significant portion of current crop production is located in areas experiencing moderate to exceptional drought.

[00:09:15]For example, the commodity, and you got the percentage of affected by drought.

[00:09:20]Peanuts, there's a lot in that growing here in Mississippi.

[00:09:25]100% of the areas are affected.

[00:09:28]Sorghum, 88% rice, 86% winter wheat, 70% corn, 25% And again, they're just getting started in these reports.

[00:09:41]But when you're seeing 180 86 70% guys, that's devastating. And what again, we're seeing less imports from certain areas. Many parts of the world are either flooded or dry or in drought.

[00:09:55]And so, it's going to become a kind of dog eat dog situation in the sense that there won't be a lot of shipping for two reasons. One, the nations are kind of hoarding because they were trying to save some from themselves and the cost with the price of gasoline and diesel going up again, what you can get is going to be very expensive. So, are you prepared for this very moment? When you see again this figure right here.

[00:10:24]Again, we're in the early May.

[00:10:27]And what have we got coming, guys? A world record El Niño and heat off the Pacific Ocean. Now, farmers have successfully used the dry window to put seeds in the ground quickly. However, the USDA World Agricultural Outlook Board notes that without significant rain in the next two to four weeks the success of the planning phase may not translate to a successful harvest as yield potential begins to decline for crops planted into dry soil. Of course, it does. But again, I think this comes from not only funding to the farmers, but encouragement and possibly encouragement in a bad time to plant. Use the money, plant.

[00:11:12]And so, it's not looking good. You you can see the percentages and you can see the conditions. Let's move forward.

[00:11:20]And I mentioned this a couple of months ago, I think guys, but as of May 2026, forecasters are warning of rapidly developing super El Niño that is expected to emerge this summer and persist into 2027.

[00:11:35]This shift is predicted to significantly alter US temperature and drought patterns by the second half of the year.

[00:11:42]That's harvest time.

[00:11:45]The transition to El Nino is expected to drive global and national temperatures to near record or historic levels. You see what I say it's coming from all sides.

[00:11:57]Financially, economically, the world wars, and now this. Again, we're moving into the peak of solar cycle 25.

[00:12:10]It says there going to be widespread highs above average temperatures are predicted for most of the contiguous US this summer.

[00:12:18]The most extreme heat is forecast for the Northwest, Great Basin, and Central Rockies, where temperatures could average 4 to 6 degrees above normal.

[00:12:27]Guys, that's a dramatic change. And you're already low on water. You didn't get the snow melt anticipated.

[00:12:35]And so it's we're stacking trouble on the trouble here uh with this report. Hope you realize it, but again, are you prepared to survive? In the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, El Nino is expected to bring a late surge of high humidity and warmer nights starting in late summer.

[00:12:52]Guys, one thing when I see reports like that, even though I have a small solar system, it'll run maybe one or two window units, I feel a lot better.

[00:13:04]Because when you see this type heat coming in, you see power outages. In that tremendous heat wave I think three summers ago, we were seeing um these transformer stations from the electric companies catch on fire, burn, knock everybody's power out in broad daylight. Nothing, no lightning, just heat.

[00:13:27]Scientists suggest 2026 and 2027 could become the warmest years on record. Are you listening?

[00:13:36]As El Nino releases massive amounts of stored ocean heat into the atmosphere.

[00:13:42]And guys again, northern hemisphere has not been getting the hurricanes like the southern hemisphere and Asia has.

[00:13:51]And that if what happens when you have a strong El Nino gas coming out of the Pacific Ocean over California and the Baja, it crosses the nation into the Atlantic and pushes the storms back towards Africa.

[00:14:06]Again, I'm predicting another uh season of very few impacts where we need the moisture and we need the cooling effects of the hurricanes to bring the heat down.

[00:14:20]Doesn't look like it's going to happen.

[00:14:23]They're saying while El Nino typically brings weather conditions to the southern US in winter, its summer arrival can have more complex effects, worsening drought in the west, intensifying drought and extreme heat are expected to dominate the northwest and northern California through the summer.

[00:14:42]Relief for the plains and this is good, increased rainfall is forecast to the central plains, Mississippi Valley, and Ohio Valley, which may help ease ongoing drought concerns for major agricultural regions like the corn belt. And you can remember the graph, it shows that uh the corn situation was the lowest at 25% compared to peanuts and others much higher than that. So, that will help that situation if what happened three summers ago doesn't happen again. We saw a high pressure set up over the nation.

[00:15:19]And the storms would come in from California and loop all the way up into Indiana and come back down over into the Carolinas maybe, but all of the central area the rain just didn't exist.

[00:15:32]It was miserable.

[00:15:34]And I'm so glad that we're at least having some type of spring this year here in the south.

[00:15:40]Let me know how how it's going guys in your area.

[00:15:43]Now also the North American monsoon in the Southwest may arrive slightly earlier late June but could be less consistent bringing spurts of heavy rain followed by dry stretches. And guys, those spurts will always cause those desert flash floods.

[00:16:01]But it's that runs off. Says in the Southeast, Florida may see above average summer rain. Long dry stretches could actually intensify drought along the Gulf Coast and Southern Appalachians before El Nino's wetter wetter winter pattern fully takes hold.

[00:16:20]If it doesn't take hold good, you're not going to have the snowpack for 2027's runoff.

[00:16:26]Says the combination of super El Nino heat and existing drought is raising significant alarms for the 2026 wildfire season. Destructive fires are particularly feared in the Northwest and Great Basin due to the forecast for extreme heat waves and dry conditions.

[00:16:45]And but guys, because of the snowfall from this past winter they're saying situation for the Colorado River reservoirs is currently critical. Major storage levels at or near historic lows following winter of record low snowpack and an exceptionally dry spring.

[00:17:03]As of May 2026, the total system storage for the Colorado River Basin is approximately 34 to 36% of capacity.

[00:17:12]That's getting low. We saw this a few years back, but it's starting up again.

[00:17:17]And we saw the conflict like further south when you get into Phoenix and those areas.

[00:17:23]They were granting building permits for these subdivisions without the approved water permits which says I think you have to prove before you build a subdivision or something like that that you have enough water for 100 years.

[00:17:38]But greed took over and all a bunch of places were built with no guarantee of water.

[00:17:44]And you've got um I think 40 million people are they're dependent on water from the Colorado River Basin itself. Lake Powell, all of those are now dropping low again.

[00:17:58]Drought heat is coming. Now this is directly in line with the Vera moment.

[00:18:04]It says municipalities, the cities like Phoenix have called for voluntary conservation. While LA cities have strict outdoor watering limits.

[00:18:13]Millions of customers across the west face potential power disruptions or higher cost if Glen Canyon Dam loses its ability to generate electricity.

[00:18:23]Again, you've got to have some kind of way to stay cool even if it's in a cave.

[00:18:28]In areas like Yuma, Arizona, residents reporting histor- uh historically low river levels causing deep concern for the future of regional farming. And let's look at the other side of things.

[00:18:41]Again, a little update on what we have been looking at. It says, "Anthropic's mythos." And this is today, Friday, May 8th.

[00:18:48]Set off cybersecurity hysteria.

[00:18:51]Now mythos is it's a word that can mean a system or belief, something like that. But Anthropic's mythos set off a cybersecurity hysteria.

[00:19:04]Experts say the threat was already here.

[00:19:07]Again, we're looking at from two different sides, but both sides are coming together in a very tight situation.

[00:19:15]It says cyber security experts and AI researchers tell CNBC that perils revealed by mythos are achievable using older models including those from Anthropic and OpenAI.

[00:19:29]AI is accelerating how quickly these vulnerabilities are found, but companies are still or they still take days or weeks to patch them creating a widening gap that leaves systems exposed.

[00:19:42]And guys, what are we talking about?

[00:19:46]The patches, it takes days or weeks.

[00:19:50]At a human snail's pace when you've got AI moving at light speed.

[00:19:55]They're taking down the money changers. Let's look at a little bit deeper. We'll see a couple of the money changers that are being affected. It says while Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are working to develop cyber defense capabilities, the initial advantage goes to offense, not defense, says the researchers.

[00:20:15]And like I said, guys, this is current.

[00:20:17]These things are changing fast. This is only a 3-hour old article.

[00:20:22]It says mythos has jolted executives and policy makers alike over concerns that a perilous new era of AI-enabled cybercrime may be near.

[00:20:33]You when you turn it loose, that's what happens.

[00:20:37]Anthropic limited its release to a few uh a few American companies including Apple, Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, and Palo Alto Networks to reduce the risk that bad actors get their hands on it. That's what they said, guys, but what they did was give a head start in a race to those before.

[00:20:57]And the other companies are being left out.

[00:21:01]Even with that precaution, the release has prompted the Trump administration to consider new government oversight on future models.

[00:21:08]Good luck. The monster has been released.

[00:21:12]Dr. Frankenstein is running for his life and Frankenstein is trampling through the villages.

[00:21:18]And they are in panic.

[00:21:21]It's uncontrollable. Guys, and we talked about again the takedown of the money changers.

[00:21:27]And the collapse of that system.

[00:21:29]Also from today, the AWS data center tied with Amazon.

[00:21:34]The outage hits trading on FanDuel and Coinbase. Recovery to take hours.

[00:21:40]They're still working on it, by the way.

[00:21:42]But you're talking about money changers.

[00:21:45]FanDuel, that's you got gambling involved. Coinbase, uh digital networks. Mostly it's gambling.

[00:21:54]And that's part of the tables of the money changers.

[00:21:57]And their outage shut them down, guys.

[00:22:00]And I don't know how much or how many millions or billions of dollars was lost because of this uh attack. And it more than likely biogenic AI. I don't know how much it cost them.

[00:22:13]But this is part of that panic situation again. FanDuel and Coinbase, you're dealing in big money people.

[00:22:21]Along with the banks and the four big tech giants. But AWS is part of that big tech.

[00:22:27]Again, AWS is Amazon Web Services.

[00:22:30]Reported an operational issue starting Thursday night, last night, due to a thermal issue at a Virginia facility.

[00:22:38]Now, I inquired into this thermal issue and it can be caused by genic agents looping. Remember, they get stuck and they start regenerating themselves, burning through the credits. In this case, I don't know how many credits or tokens were burned up. But the thermal issue, it shut down the system. It got too hot.

[00:22:59]The leading cloud provider's outage was tied to issues on popular trading platforms like FanDuel and Coinbase.

[00:23:06]Full recovery is still expected to take several hours, AWS said in an update.

[00:23:12]And they have not fully recovered.

[00:23:15]So, every day that something like this happens in these upper monetary platforms is another decline, another overturning.

[00:23:26]And that's what AI is basically said is going to happen. And according to Amazon, the outage was tied to overheating at a data center in the main US East 1 region hosted in Northern Virginia. It's in Northern Virginia, but guys, that is the section that controls Wall Street in New York the New York City area, by the way.

[00:23:46]AWS said issues were in a single availability zone in the region.

[00:23:51]We are actively working to bring additional cooling system capacity online, which will enable us to recover the remaining affected hardware in the impacted zones.

[00:24:02]AWS said in its 9:51 a.m. update today.

[00:24:06]And I don't think they've got everything back home.

[00:24:09]And what they're trying to do now, guys, and it's sounds a little insane to me, but they want to build these deep water data centers now.

[00:24:19]Deep in the ocean.

[00:24:20]Deep enough to where the ocean's natural cold water will help cool everything, keep the building the building can dissipate heat into the oceans.

[00:24:30]And of course, you're going to be um which they don't mention, you're going to be emitting a hell of a lot of 5G and other information into the oceans.

[00:24:41]Do you think realize what that will happen to the navigational system of marine life? They don't care, just like they didn't care about putting the windmills in the ocean.

[00:24:51]All for greed, but that greed in that situation is coming to an end. Not before we see a little more destruction, but this is about not them, but about you and I.

[00:25:03]I'm just pointing out that you better be ready, guys. This is not going away anytime soon. So, we add in the fact, like I said in the beginning, we got wars and rumors of wars, but we see the AI taking down the economy like a global reset situation.

[00:25:21]And the Lord's going to come in here and back that up with the world record heat wave and drought.

[00:25:30]If that didn't get your attention, I don't know what will, but if it puts you in the mind of the again, what we call the Vera moment of survival, then I've done my job. And sometimes it doesn't sink in right away. I understand that, but just keep looking around. Look at the prices. Look at the availability. Look at the water. Look at the droughts. Look at the forest fires.

[00:25:53]You'll see it.

[00:25:55]So, regardless of where you're at, there's some type of backup plan that can be established. You know the old saying, those that plan to fail are those that fail to plan or planning to fail.

[00:26:09]And so, it's like a a procrastination event. Well, I'll worry about it later. I'm don't feel like planning on it right now.

[00:26:18]Those are the ones that fail right there. Because it's coming so fast that all of a sudden you're not going to have time to do anything about it, and you can start seeing the dominoes fall. So, get in that state of mind, again.

[00:26:34]This is about the physical body at this point.

[00:26:38]Yours, your family's, and the survival of it.

[00:26:43]So, pay attention. Start getting into the mode of backup food, some backup power.

[00:26:50]Because if you're in the middle of you're in Arizona the middle of a heat wave and you don't have power, it's going to be pretty rough. It's rough here in Mississippi.

[00:27:00]But if you could just cool down one room of your house with a very small affordable uh solar system, guys, that maybe 1,000 1,500 bucks would do it. Maybe a little less. If you just had that one room or living room or bedroom where you could go in and cool off with your solar panels like I do, uh then you can make it. Think about that. I'm not trying to sell you anything. Just trying to get you in the mood to or in the mental frame to think about these things.

[00:27:29]It's uh if some of you may have uh felt the urgency like I have, tightening up a few things here and there, making sure everything's working right, making sure you've got your ducks in a row. It's an urgency moving forward and I think it's the way that God tells his people to wake up. Be prepared.

[00:27:52]Don't be destroyed for lack of knowledge.

[00:27:54]Cuz the knowledge is there if you're not too lazy to look up look it up and do something about it.

[00:28:02]But guys, we've been on here 30 minutes.

[00:28:03]I wanted to bring that a bit of information here about what's going to happen this summer. So again, the double whammy of economic problems, war, and world record heat and drought.

[00:28:17]You've got to be prepared now, guys. We are on the cusp of summer.

[00:28:23]Here in central Mississippi, I've been astonished that we've had any type of spring cuz usually that I thought that had ended forever.

[00:28:32]And right now, guys, it's overcast, little rain, 69°.

[00:28:37]And last year we were probably in the 90s.

[00:28:41]So it to me it's a reprieve giving this old body a little more time to prepare what I've got to do outside, you know, make sure everything's okay.

[00:28:50]And it's a blessing to me.

[00:28:52]And you guys take advantage of it. Don't wait till it's unbearable to make a move. Start planning now.

[00:29:00]We're watching it, guys. You watch it.

[00:29:03]It's a heads up. Be safe and God bless every one of you.