In the fall of 1998, Silvana asked Jesus to give us a mild winter in New Mexico, USA. Although, there has been a harsh winter elsewhere all over the United States, Jesus responded to Silvana's prayer, by giving us a mild winter in New Mexico. Some people who have lived in New Mexico their whole lives have commented that they cannot remember such a mild winter. The media here has called this, "The winter which never was." (See news article from New Mexico newspaper.) When this article was posted in the newspaper, Silvana commented that the news people are negative, and lead the people to be negative, and cynical. The newsmen want a drought, even though it will cause suffering, because it will be "interesting news". She said that they report the most negative things they can, and they do not trust the Father. They are arrogant, even concerning the weather, over which they have no power. The Father controls the weather, and does as HE wishes. When will man acknowledge this?

In light of their arrogance, she asked the Father, "Let there not be a drought here." Since she asked Him, (March 4, 1999) there has been rain, (although it was not forecast at the time) and snow, (article) to bring the moisture that is needed, and it has continued to the current day. People in New Mexico comment that this seems like a different state, with an entirely different climate than they were used to having in the past. Some say they have never seen this state so green, from all the rain we have had.

The Father sees Silvana's love for Him, and her obedience, and that she is His servant, and He has responded many times to her petitions, whether it be concerning weather, or judgment, or healing, or wisdom. Following is an article from a New Mexico newspaper. First they comment about the mild winter, and then they are worried about a drought, but the Father has assured us that He will answer Silvana's prayers concerning this.

Dry Winter Has N.M. Sweating Over Fire Season
Only a Wet March Can Halt Drought

By John Fleck and Michael Coleman
Albuquerque Journal
March 4, 1999

Call it "the winter that never was."
State officials are bracing for high fire danger and drought as a stubborn La Niña has left New Mexico wilting under one of the driest and warmest winters on record.
From Bloomfield in the north to Deming in the south and most points in between, New Mexico communities saw just a fraction of their normal winter precipitation.
The state's mountain snowpack is 4 feet below normal, meaning an extraordinarily wet March would be required to replenish water supplies and head off a drought, according to federal data released Wednesday.
And while forecasters say there's a chance of a wet storm blowing through the northern part of the state this weekend, the long-range forecast calls for warm, dry weather through June.
"We need about 3 or 4 feet of snow to get our snowpack up to normal," said Dan Murray of the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service. "That's going to be a stretch to get that."
"There's no hope that I can see of any recovery," said Kelly Redmond, a Southwest climate expert at the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, Nev.
At a news conference Wednesday, Gov. Gary Johnson cautioned the public about the drought conditions, but also offered reassurances that the state is prepared for the worst.
"Drought can be invasive and unpredictable," Johnson said. "The state of New Mexico will do what it can to ease its impacts and respond to emergencies."
The governor said the dry conditions could lead to bans on open burning, campfires and fireworks. State parks could also be temporarily closed if drought conditions get serious enough, Johnson said.
Any decision to ban fireworks would be made by the Public Regulation Commission, said Jennifer Salisbury, Johnson's Cabinet secretary of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources. Salisbury said a fireworks ban must be enacted 20 days before a holiday.
Johnson said communities should evaluate their water systems and supplies and consider enacting water-conservation measures.
Officials are also beginning to watch the state's forests closely because of a growing risk of wildfire.
With the shorter days and still-low temperatures of late winter, we're not in the fire season yet, said Forest Service fire information officer Mary Zabinski.
But we're likely to enter high fire danger earlier than usual and remain at high or greater fire danger for an extended period of time, according to the latest fire weather forecast from the Albuquerque office of the National Weather Service.
Albuquerque, the New Mexico city where weather records have been kept the longest, has seen only five drier winters since 1892, and just four that were warmer.
Across the state, only a handful of communities received even half their normal rain and snow for December, January and February, said Deirdre Kann, chief scientist for the National Weather Service's Albuquerque office.
"Most of the state is below 50 percent," Kann said.
Albuquerque saw one modest storm in December, one in January and none in February, leaving the city with just 0.34 of an inch of December-February precipitation, less than a quarter of normal.
Santa Fe got just 0.19 of an inch, 10 percent of normal, while Los Alamos got 0.28 of an inch of precipitation, 10 percent of normal.
"It's been incredibly dry up here," said Los Alamos National Laboratory forest researcher Dave Breshears, who's monitoring piñon and juniper trees, watching for signs of stress.
In the south, Deming got 0.37 of an inch, 20 percent of normal, and the Gila Wilderness and other mountainous areas of southwest New Mexico have already lost most of their snow.
"The Gila's in horrendous shape," Kann said.
Only a handful of communities in the north and east saw above-average precipitation, according to Kann, and a big part of that came during a single storm Jan. 29.


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