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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.