Big Typhoon

 The warmie news is full of the typhoon.  It is caused by climate change, just like all other weather conditions:  heat, cold, rain, drought.  Just put your coin into the nearest climate fortune teller machine, and you get the only answer it has.

This typhoon is fed by Arctic winds zooming over the Pacific, and warm winds from the Indian Ocean.  It is over warm water, so it is a 'hot' vortex.  Both extremes of hot and cold vortex machines use the non-linearity of water phase changes to provide extra 'oomph'.  No physics is being done on this, but I find it fascinating.  I have run the models in my head, and it hurts.

ps A hot vortex need to be a double vortex running up the interior sides.  The pressure at the bottom is so low that the water practically boils.  It sucks out so much heat energy that it is forced to follow the hot water, and it leaves a track in the water temperature.

If you squint, you can see a circular impression.  No track, and not close because of the nature of how these pictures are taken, and the clouds around the typhoon.  You would need to throw in a bunch of 'smart ping pong balls' to measure things.  Fascinating physics, but not in my lifetime.

ps and yeah, Toronto gets its 2 inches of rain.