Italian town blanketed with apocalypse snow

The world is about to end and there’s nothing you can do about it — at least that’s what a 16^th century Italian philosopher says.

That philosopher is Matteo Tafuri, known to many as the “Italian Nostradamus,” reports the Daily Mail. Some 500 years ago Tafuri put quill to paper and wrote the following:

“Salento of palm trees and mild south wind, snowy Salento but never after the touch. Two days of snow, two flashes in the sky, I know the world ends, but I do not yearn.”

The small resort town of Salento sits in the heel of the boot that is Italy and, being in the southernmost part of the country, doesn’t see a lot of snow.

Until this past weekend, reports The Sun, when it dumped the white stuff for two days straight.

Could Tafuri have known so many centuries ago that climate change would wreak havoc with global temperatures, leading to two days of snow in Sorento, and shortly thereafter, the end of the world?

Maybe. He was a pretty smart guy with an apparent knack for predicting future events. That being said, he also thought you could cure the plague with a herb-based treacle, so maybe take his terrifying predictions with a grain of salt.