The Gulf Stream has an impact on a series of different climates; we decided to look at just how big the impact of it is.

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Gulf Stream & its Effect on Climate

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The Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is an ocean current
system that is made up of the Florida
current and the North Atlantic Drift.

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Florida Current
This thermal ocean current that
forms part of the Gulf Stream is a
movement of water that occurs
because of water being pushed
from the Atlantic Ocean into the
Caribbean Sea by the Earth’s
rotation, which exerts greater
pressure along the equator.

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North Atlantic Drift
The North Atlantic Drift is
the reason that the
climate of the UK and
Northern Europe are so
mild when compared with
the climates of Canada,
Russia and Alaska that all
lie along the same
latitude.

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Gulf Stream effect on other aspects of weather
Though the warming effect that the Gulf Stream has is
beneficial for the climates that it affects, there is a
meteorological downside that comes in the form of the
formation of tropical cyclones and often also increases
the intensity of cyclones that occur there.

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