#physics #weather **Arctic spill storm factory now starting in Atlantic** The bbc and other media keep insisting all this is just a lazy atmospheric river. Those are the pure ocean plumes without cold. They can drift forever, but when they hit mountains, they can produce rain. That's why the plumes are called 'precipitable water'.
But what we have in the Pacific are huge storms, near hurricanes, with a full feed of hot and cold. Now we are getting those hitting Europe. The storm drags in the cold feed, so the NW side is a blizzard.