We make fun of the weather people for their errors or for either missing or over-predicting events. Monday, March 3, culminates several days of really nice weather. Highs in the upper 50s. At 10:30 Monday morning, it was sunny and 53 degrees. Here’s the view from my driveway. At the same time, the Weather Channel App had a different take:

What to believe? What I’m seeing now? Or the dire warning of a blizzard? Turns out in this case, the snow came, but not 5 inches, at most 2 inches.

It was a good warning. I wouldn’t have wanted to be out in it. Warnings and predictions of the future are not to satisfy our curiosity but to change the way we live today.

For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. (1 Thessalonians 5.3, NKJV)

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. (2 Peter 3.10 – 13, NKJV)