Will It Snow Again in Mcallen Tx

Charisma News, the go-to source for charismatic excess (and outright lunacy) within Evangelicalism, recently published a story pimping the Christian fantasy show, Godwinks @ PureFlix.  "Godwinks" are, according to Charisma News, miracles performed by the Christian deity. Ane such "Godwink" involves Toni and David Espinoza of McAllen, Texas:

Rushnell [the host of Godwinks], who tells many of these "godwinks" stories in PureFlix.com's series "Godwinks at Pure Flix," recently revealed the most astonishing miracle story he's ever encountered.

He told "The Pure Flix Podcast" about how Toni and David Espinoza of McAllen, Texas, were in one case given some truly devastating news: David, who was 50 years old at the time, suffered from a heart that was working at only ten percent capacity, and he desperately needed a transplant.

The family unit turned to pray—and then something absolutely incredible happened. Listen to "The Pure Flix Podcast" at the 6-minute mark to hear Rushnell explicate:

"Toni … said, 'We are going to pray together as a family. We're going to get our church praying, nosotros're going to get everybody praying,'" Rushnell recounted.

Toni soon found herself feeling convicted considering she realized she was essentially praying for someone else to die in guild for her married man to receive a new heart.

That's when she totally changed her mindset and made a major adjustment to her prayer routine: She asked God to fully heal her husband.

"She had prayed that God would completely heal David [and] that he would ostend it by making it snow on McAllen, Texas, on Christmas Twenty-four hours," Rushnell said.

There was but one logistical problem with Toni'southward belief that God would confirm the healing with a snowfall on Christmas: it had reportedly never snowed on Christmas in McAllen, Texas. In fact, in that location hadn't been snowfall in the area in 109 years.

But, on Christmas Eve at 11:45 p.grand., Toni looked outside and saw a white coating in her backyard: it had snowed for the offset fourth dimension in McAllen, Texas. While some might call it a coincidence, David went back for a heart date 3 weeks later, and his physicians were stunned.

"The doctors looked at the reports, they shook their heads and said, 'We tin't explain this, but David—yous are going to live for a very long fourth dimension," Rushnell said. "Information technology was the most amazing godwink that I remember I had always heard."

Yes, it did snowfall on December 24-25 2004. Notwithstanding, non only did it snow in McAllen, it snowed across much of Southern Texas. According to Wikipedia:

The most noticeable, and unusual, outcome associated with the storm was the snowfall it produced. Much of the snowfall savage in southern Texas, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, but some snow, albeit less deep, brutal across southwestern and southeastern Louisiana. Any snow in these areas is extremely unusual, perchance occurring once every twenty years, and these events are commonly airborne flurries which melt on contact with the ground. In many places the snow stuck to the basis and accumulated to an appreciable depth. In Brownsville, Texas, snow fell to a depth of 1.5 inches (3.viii cm), the first measurable snow at the metropolis in years, since the Great Blizzard of 1899.The fact that the snow accumulated overnight on Christmas Eve led to a White Christmas the adjacent morning, something completely foreign to the region. Beyond all of southern Texas and in southwestern Louisiana, snowfall fell in places where information technology had not for anywhere from 15 to 120 years. Near the declension, in Corpus Christi, Texas, five.two inches (13 cm) of snow fell, more snow than in all previous recorded years combined. This was also the instance in Victoria, Texas, where a significant 13.0 inches (33 cm) savage. New Orleans, Louisiana had its first white Christmas in fifty years. In addition to the unusual occurrence of snow inland, moderate to heavy snow was also reported over the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico. This is the beginning significant snow autumn in Houston since February 12, 1960, when a snowstorm hit central and southward Texas with eight to x inches of snow

This was aConditions event, non a "Godwink."Scientific discipline, people, science. Information technology snowed in McAllen, Texas because atmospheric conditions were such that it snowed — no deity needed. As with most Bible-blinded Evangelicals, Toni and David Espinoza saw a miracle where there was none.

Dec 8, 2017, The McAllen Monitor reported yet some other "blizzard," one that left so little snowfall that atmospheric condition officials could not measure it. Yep, it technically "snowed," but here in the upper Midwest, such snowfalls don't count. Yet, using Toni Espinoza'due south logic, a McAllen resident somewhere could have claimed information technology as a "miracle"; that is if they had demanded God to whip out his divine penis and show information technology simply for them on December 8, 2017.

According to the Charisma News story, it hadn't snowed in McAllen, Texas in 109 years. I searched high and low for show for this claim, and all I institute was the following on the National Weather condition Service website. It tells theWHY of the 2004 snow result:

The Rio Grande Valley of Deep South Texas experienced 1 of its almost memorable Christmas Holidays ever. A rare combination of weather events developed in late December that produced several inches of snowfall, which in itself is quite rare in this region. However, to have snowfall fall on Christmas Eve and morning is a historical kickoff co-ordinate to the more than 150 years of weather data. This White Christmas is certainly one for the tape books.

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The freezing temperatures and snowfall were expected in Southward Texas and National Weather Service Offices were talking nearly the arrival of unseasonably cold temperatures prior to the holiday. Snowfall was mentioned as a possibility and every bit Christmas drew closer, snow became more likely as the weather forecast became more focused.

We need to wait back to the calendar week before Christmas in order to epitomize the details of this historic event. Signals from the numerical weather forecast models suggested a strong cold front and chill air mass would move south along the Rocky Mountains into Texas and eventually over the Lower Texas Coast. This cold front moved through Brownsville, Wednesday afternoon (12/22/2004). A second reinforcing surge of chill air followed the initial front end, dropping temperatures into the 30s and low 40s late Thursday (12/23/2004). Maximum temperatures on Fri (12/24/2004) were in the upper 30s to low 40s beyond the Rio Grande Valley. Widespread moderate rain covered much of the area with most locations reporting i half of an inch to well-nigh one inch of liquid atmospheric precipitation (Effigy one, below). The cold rain began to taper off on Christmas Eve equally temperatures began to fall below freezing

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As the result began to unfold, the meteorologists at NWS Brownsville refined the precipitation forecast to account for rainfall changing to sleet or a rain/snow mix, and eventually irresolute to all snow for the overnight hours between December 24th and 25th. The kickoff in a series of winter weather warnings and advisories – Freeze Warnings – were issued past the National Weather Service at 230 AM December 23rd. Around noon on Christmas Eve, the Freeze Warnings were upgraded to Winter Atmospheric condition Advisories, which were subsequently upgraded to Winter Tempest Warnings later that evening for Heavy Snow, continuing until the morning of December 25th when the snowfall finally ended.

All in all, the snowfall was greeted with joy and excitement since it has been well-nigh 110 years since the final measurable snow vicious in the city of Brownsville – and for that matter, much of the Valley.

Yeah, snowfall in McAllen is a rare occurrence. Yep, it snowed on Christmas Day 2004. Aye, information technology has snowed since then, though non in measurable amounts. Thus, the all-time that can be said is that there had not beenMEASURABLE snow amounts in McAllen in 109 years, and that this is due to climate and weather patterns, not God. I am confident in saying that there accept likely been other "snowfalls" to hit McAllen likewise the "blizzard" of 2017. Meteorological records only go back for 150 or and then years, so it is an argument from silence to say that information technology has never snowed in McAllen before 2004. This story is merely another instance of Evangelicals desperately looking for a miracle where there is none. And as far as David Espinoza's miraculous healing is concerned, neither Charisma News, God Winks @Pure Flix, or the Espinozas provided whatever show for the claim that David was miraculously "healed."  People are but expected to, by irrational religion,BELIEVE. When asked on the TODAY prove about whether the chain of events was mere coincidence or divine intervention, God Winks host, Squire Rushnell, replied "You know what that shows? It shows that if you take faith and pray, Godwinks happen." What it shows is that with faith people tin and volition believe almost anything. If Evangelicals desire rationalists and skeptics to "believe," they are going to accept to cough upward a lot more evidence than the same story.

Nearly Bruce Gerencser

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