Is the storm in "the day after tomorrow" a hurricane?

Question

in the movie the day after tmr. they are hit by a huge storm i think. is it a hurricane? it caused everything to freeze and i think it happend when the eye passed the city. can this really happen? what is the difference between a hurricane and a storm? and how can you define a storm?

Answer 1

Of course it can happen, haven't you been listening to the politicians? You need to send all your money to the Democratic party, ride a horse and take bread and water for nourishment. Oh and no fooling around we already have too many people !

Answer 2

By definition, those storms were not hurricanes, as hurricanes, as well as other tropical systems, have warm cores, that is, the temperature in their centers is warmer than the surrounding air.  

They would have been properly called non-tropical lows.  No, it cannot happen as depicted in this movie.  Sinking air warms by compression, no matter how fast it sinks.  The reduction in pressure required to cool the central air enough to be as cold as it was at the surface would be too low to survive in the first place.  A LOT of artistic license was taken in that movie.

Answer 3

I think the movie says it is a hurricane, but really we get mid-latitude cyclones that look like hurricanes, but they are just above land. Mid-latitude cyclones is what we get all of our weather from, they are basically created from lows and highs.

Answer 4

It's a movie. No, it can't happen.

Answer 5

Those were really big low pressure systems and yes it is possible, but the conditions have to be just right for those to form.