Meanwhile, the weather worsens across the world: Tokyo is struck by a giant hail storm, three helicopters sent to rescue the British Royal family from Balmoral Castle crash in Scotland after all their fuel lines and crew freeze after inadvertently flying into their superstorm's eye, and Los Angeles is devastated by a tornado outbreak. It is confirmed by Jack that the force of the storm is so strong, and the effects are estimated to be so severe, that following the storm, the entire Northern Hemisphere would be in a new ice age. The storms pull frozen air from the upper troposphere into their center, flash-freezing anything caught in their eyes with temperatures below −150 degrees Fahrenheit (−101 degrees Celsius). Jack tries to get Becker to consider evacuations in the Northern States, but Becker again refuses.Ī massive storm system develops in the northern hemisphere, splitting into three gigantic hurricane-like superstorms above Canada, Scotland, and Siberia. Jack's and Rapson's teams, along with NASA meteorologist Janet Tokada, build a forecast model based on Jack's research. When several buoys in the Atlantic Ocean show a severe ocean temperature drop, Rapson concludes Jack's theories are correct. Professor Terry Rapson, an oceanographer of the Hedland Centre in Scotland, befriends Jack over his views of an inevitable climate shift. At a UN conference in New Delhi, Jack discusses his research showing that climate change could cause an ice age, but US Vice President Raymond Becker dismisses his concerns. Jack Hall, an American paleoclimatologist, and his colleagues Frank and Jason, drill for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA, when the ice shelf suddenly begins to split away.

It received mixed reviews upon release, with critics highly praising the film's special effects but criticizing its writing and numerous scientific inaccuracies.

Filmed in Toronto and Montreal, it is the highest-grossing Hollywood film made in Canada (adjusted for inflation). A major commercial success, the film became the sixth highest-grossing film of 2004. Originally slated for release in the summer of 2003, The Day After Tomorrow premiered in Mexico City on May 17, 2004, and was released in the United States on May 28, 2004. A series of extreme weather events usher in global cooling and lead to a new ice age. It depicts catastrophic climatic effects following the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation. Based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, the film stars Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, and Sela Ward. The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Roland Emmerich.

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