#physics #weather **Formation of a storm**
Called typhoons in the Pacific, hurricanes in the Atlantic, or 'Big Ass Flooding" in California'. To get a storm, you need curl, then a cold and hot feed. On the Atlantic belt, the traditional hurricane gets its curl from 'tropical waves' which are like breaking waves from the sea. Right now, the California storms get their curl from a narrow spill of cold air slamming into a churning hot air mass. There are more to come to California, all caused by intense cold. It can only be made worse by earthquakes which can be triggered by high water tables. Although this has happened many times before (never rains but it pours), this is the first time that satellites are watching.
ps. These are Cat2-4 hurricanes if you just look at them, caused by intense cold. But the weather people are stunned. They don't what to call them. If they call them cold-formed hurricanes, then it cracks the groupthink a little. So, they won't define them.
