“The Pacific Torrent” is both a real and a rhetorical phenomenon. As a physical event, it is a multi-week atmospheric river that has caused historic floods and will intensify with climate change. As a metaphor, it captures the accelerating, often overwhelming flow of East Asian goods, capital, and culture into North America over the past half-century. Recognizing the shared structure—persistent pressure gradients, narrow corridors, and episodic bursts—offers new insights for disaster planning and trade policy. Future work should quantify the “return period” of metaphorical torrents (e.g., how often does trade grow by >15% in a single year?) and refine paleo-PT reconstruction using lake sediments from the Cascadia margin.
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