A lot was answered about the lore of the Hunger Games during the Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, but I couldn’t help but notice something odd in Lucky Flickerman’s weather report.

Something that might say a lot more about Panem and the world than we think. (1/3)🧵

Lucky mentions that a slight wind is coming to district 2 in one of his reports, and then points to a weather map with a cold front coming from the east. This front is huge and stretches from the former Gulf of Mexico to the former Rockies. And weirdly, it travels west.

Weather systems in current North America typical travel west to east and are carried by the jet stream, a ribbon of fast moving winds high above the ground. As storms evolve they to spin counterclockwise due to the Coriolis effect.

In Panem, we see things are a little different.

While we don’t know if storms spin counterclockwise or not, we do know that weather systems come in from the east.

The only places in present North America where we regularly experience that movement of weather is in the tropics. Think hurricanes.

So, what’s to say that the calamity that changed the whole face of the Earth before the start of the Hunger Games series didn’t include continental shifts?

Maybe Panem’s capital is actually closer to latitude with modern-day Mexico.

Maybe it’s even a prequel to the movie 2012. 👀