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 Author: Khaled Sultan Almarzo The Day After Tomorrow , a 2004 film by Roland Emmerich. The movie's onset is a strange and menacing weather phenomenon that is inexplicable and anomalous. These are depicted as hailstorms pouring hail the size of small rocks and a series of freak storms in Tokyo, and snow in New Delhi. The reason, an overnight climatic change at the global level, which goes unnoticed because of the anomalous local weather. This change is caused by successive superstorms which freeze entire cities and the whole of the Northern Hemisphere is in an ice age in a night. The film has successfully dramatised the malevolence of this weather as depicted in a popular scene where New York City is frozen by a massive cyclone, the temperature drops so fast that a helicopter drops mid-flight to the ground. But what part of it is plausible and scientifically accurate? Image Source: 20th Century Fox / Fair Use Antagonist: The Weather The weather is the antagonist in...