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Richard Mount and Thomas Page's 1700 map of the Gulf of Mexico, A Chart of the Bay of Mexico Graph showing the overall water temperature of the Gulf between Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Although Katrina cooled waters in its path by up to 4 °C, they had rebounded by the time of Rita's appearance.
A map of the Loop Current. A parent to the Florida Current, the Loop Current is a warm ocean current that flows northward between Cuba and the Yucatán Peninsula, moves north into the Gulf of Mexico, loops east and south before exiting to the east through the Florida Straits and joining the Gulf Stream.
The Gulf Stream proper is a western-intensified current, driven largely by wind stress. [10] In 1958, oceanographer Henry Stommel noted, "very little water from the Gulf of Mexico is actually in the stream". [11] The North Atlantic Current, in contrast, is largely driven by thermohaline circulation. Its carrying warm water northeast across the ...
Rafael regained major hurricane status on Friday, reaching maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour, generating swells and high seas across the Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said.
The threat of development in the Gulf of Mexico is among a handful of areas in the tropical basin stretching all the way to the western coast of Africa, where a t Tropical Depression 6 in Atlantic ...
The system, with maximum wind speeds of 105mph, moved slowly through the Gulf of Mexico and headed northwest throughtout the day, gaining some strength on Thursday afternoon. But National ...
Contour map of Gulf of Mexico as sounded by the C&GS Steamer Blake between 1873 and 1875. Over 3,000 soundings went into this chart, most of the deep water soundings taken by the Sigsbee Sounding Machine. This was the first realistic bathymetric map of any oceanic basin. In: "Three Cruises of the BLAKE" by Alexander Agassiz, 1888. P. 102.
Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, just offshore of the upper Texas coast. ... Hurricane Ernesto hit Bermuda and brought life-threatening surf and rip currents to the U.S. along the East Coast.