Reply #25: Nobody here, except you, is talking about "The Gulf", this one formed...

[Up2Late]

...in the North East Atlantic! Something that has never happened before.

And when we are talking about the Gulf Stream, we are talking about the North-eastern part of it, the part that normally transfers heat from the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, to Ireland and Northern Europe.

What we are saying is, if it changes it's path to lower down, say Western Spain or Western France, that could be what caused this.

Apparently not, as we have come to find below, that it's a pocket of warm water that is caught between the Northern Gulf Stream and the Southern Current (I don't know what they call that one)

This will not affect the East Coast of the United States, but it might cause a lot of problems for our friends in Western Europe.

Here's a link to a site that explains Ocean Currents and what is "normal"

<http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/atlantic/gulf-stream.html>