Blizzard 2026: 18 Inches or Just a Light Dusting?

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The tri-state area in much of the country is bracing for a major snow storm.

What's interesting is that every forecast seems different.

The American model, the European model, the Canadian model, the Greenland model,

each report their voices the previous one.

Even the latest technology in AI, they still can't say with certainty

when it will begin, how long it will last, how many inches will fall.

Sometimes they say 18 inches, we barely get a dusting, or vice versa.

Mediologists simply cannot predict it with certainty.

So why is it that so many other things can be forecast so accurately,

but weather, especially rain and snow, remains so unpredictable?

When a farmer plants wheat or fruit, experts can predict when it will sprout

and approximately how much each acre will yield.

But rain and snow, the fire precision.

Mediologists examine radar and satellite images, pressure systems, maps.

Yet no one can tell you how much rain will fall next month or this month,

or even this week.

At best, they can identify a storm once it begins forming,

and even then, the projections are often wrong.

So why is rain different?

Another question that highlights the uniqueness of rain.

In all of Shmina Esre, there's only one braka

who's no such changes based on the season.

The braka for rain.

And they went to save St. Thalamat al-Avraka,

I am Ashavura Khmer de Ghasham,

and the summer we switched to Mardat Thalam is saying braka.

There's no other place in Davinink, where we adjust the text based on the season.

In Elle, we don't add the words with any word stasha,

vain or slachlanu, despite it being the season of Chuvah.

On Paisach, we don't add anything to Gail Israel,

even though it is a time for Ghulah.

Only rain requires that we change our request based on the season.

So to understand why rain is different,

we need to go back to the Shashis' laborations

and examine how rain initially entered the world.

In Paisach's laborations, we find something extraordinary.

On the 60th creation, the Torah says,

there were still no shrubs and herbs had not yet grown.

Why?

For him there are Shem al-Alarat,

because a Shem had not yet sent rain upon the earth.

So let's think about this.

After six days, creation was complete.

The world was perfect.

Everything existed, light, sky, seas, animals, birds,

even a human being.

But no trees, no grass, no plants. Why not?

Sarashik explained something astonishing.

Why are Shem not caused the terrain?

Because there was no one in the world

who could be mackered with Tavossam Shalgeshamam.

No one existed who could recognize the value and the necessity of rain.

But when Audhamerition arrived,

he understood that the world could not exist without rain.

So he dumped the rain and it fell.

And only then did vegetation emerge and grow.

And this is remarkable.

The Torah already states that on Tuesday,

Hashem declared,

Tachai Ars Desha,

let the earth bring forth vegetation.

And yet, three full days have passed.

It was Friday already.

And there was still no grass.

Sarashik explained that the vegetation stood just beneath

the surface of the ground,

poised to emerge, waiting for Tfilah.

And the moment Audham davant,

it burst forth and it grew.

Everything else in creation came into existence without Tfilah.

Animals, birds, fish,

no prayer was required.

Audham did not have to dive in for air or food or light.

Those were given automatically.

Only water, only rain required Tfilah to enter the world.

And because of this, rain in our panasa

will always require Tfilah.

We dive in for it explicitly and with precision.

Rain is unique in another way as well.

Every component of creation is clearly described

as being brought into existence

during the six days of creation.

Except for water.

Water, it seems, preceded the Shashismayb-Rajas.

The Torah never says that Hashem said,

let there be water.

The Pasek says,

Baruch al-Akimrah,

hef is the playhamoyam.

This suggests that water existed before the six days of creation.

This means that water exists beyond the normal boundaries of Teva.

It is not confined to nature.

It transcends Teva.

And because water is not bound by Teva,

mere mortals cannot truly predict rainers now.

When it will fall, how much will come down,

whether it will be a drought or too much rain,

these are not things human beings can know with certainty.

Science can analyze patterns and probabilities,

but it cannot fully grasp rain,

because rain exists beyond the rigid laws of nature.

The Gwemar Amsakh Dastan tells us that rain is one of the three keys

that Akadash Baruch who keeps exclusively in his own hands.

He himself controls it.

So will there be 18 inches or just a light dusting?

Nobody really knows.

Hashem is not relinquished the key to rain to anyone,

not even the most advanced models or the greatest meteorologist.

And now we know.

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