according to "the day after tomorrow" (has to do with the weather in the movie)?

Question

according to the day after tomorrow movie----super cold air from upper trosophere is being forced down by hurrican-like storms freezing everything instantley...is this possible? coud it ever happen? can you explain your answer..

Answer 1

# The plot-feasibility condition that descending stratospheric air would be cold, because it was apparently descending too fast to warm up, is incorrect. The potential temperature of stratospheric air is higher, not lower than the temperature of the surface air. Rapidly descending, rarefied air would also have relatively little thermal mass, and would be compressed to sea level pressure as it descended, heating it greatly and having little effect on sea level temperature.

# Hurricanes can only form over very large bodies of seasonably warm water, such as an ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricanes cannot form over land, such as Siberia.

# The freezing temperature for the kerosene fuel used in most commercial and military jet engines, such as the RAF helicopters, is between -40 to -52.6 °F ( -40 to -47 °C) and not at the -151°F Prof. Rapson informs Jack is the freezing temperature ("We had to look it up!" Rapson tells Jack). Yet jets engines are routinely flown at 30,000 ft (9144m), the upper part of the troposphere whence the supercold air is supposed to be descending across the northern hemisphere.[

# In the scene where helicopters freeze solid in mid air, the temperature required for this to happen would be far too low for snow to occur (snow is shown falling). Below about −40°C the moisture capacity of air is so low that snow is very unlikely. The temperature in this scene would need to be much colder than −40°C

Answer 2

No! You would have to force low pressure (upper atmosphere) to high pressure (lower atmosphere). That doesn't happen. Also, the coldest parts of the UPPER atmosphere are actually above the equator. (The warmest parts of the upper atmosphere are actually of the poles.)

Answer 3

No weather doesn't go that high into the atmosphere. There's a completely different wind pattern