The world as gone nuts.
Yep.
Weather has been a tradable commodity since 1997 when the first OTC weather trade was made. Two years later the Chicago Mercantile Exchange got in the game and investopedia.com includes weather trading in its search engines.
Maybe the next time you get a reach around email from your congressional representatives expressing heartfelt concern, you might want to write back and ask her what are the chances that what you’re experiencing isn’t the result of weather modification meeting up with market manipulation.