Joe wrote:
The chicken or the egg?

Which came first? The low pressure or the storm?

In simple terms, help a dummy understand if the low pressure causes the storm,
or is the low pressure a byproduct of the storm?

And why in the hell does the pressure rise and fall?

Why does one have to precede the other? Why can't they
co-evolve?

Pressure rises because air moves into a column. More
air in the column = more weight = higher pressure.

Scott