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Originally Posted by jambutty
Have a look at the map they so thoughtfully provide at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gulf_Stream_water_temperature.jpg Where the Gulf Stream becomes the North Atlantic Drift is off the North Carolina coast. That orangy/yellow bit and that swings out north eastward across the North Atlantic. In fact it is more east-north-east.
So the map is at odds with the statement “follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.........” However if you compare their map with the eastern seaboard of the USA that black peninsula near the top is south of Baltimore and Baltimore is nowhere near Canada.
I should imagine that the map is an image taken from a satellite and being a photograph I would suggest that it is right. Whoever wrote the text did so in the mistaken belief that the GS or NAD goes up as far as Newfoundland. That’s what they used to teach at school many years ago until technology showed that the teaching wasn’t quite correct.
In any case if Newfoundland and PEI were influenced by the GS wouldn’t they have milder winters than they do? Would the St Lawrence River and the Gulf of St Lawrence be frozen in winter if the GS went up that far?
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its the fresh water in the St Lawrence river what freezes and closes down the seaway, the Maritime province ports are open