Wouldn't surprise me all that much if it were caused by consequences of tinkering with the weather.

China had been dumping massive amounts of silver iodide in the air to cause rain this summer it didn't help all that much, not much later Pakistan saw massive floods. our media overlords were really fast blaming western caused climate change and ignored what pakistan's neighbor had been doing all summer and fall.

Pressure systems influence each other, and global dimming is a main stream accepted thing. Fucking around with some contrails, reducing evaporation and dropping pressure in a region could lead to large scale fuckery.