How does the Gulf Stream Ocean Current affect Global Climates?
United States: The Gulf Stream is influential on the climate of the east coast of Florida, especially southeast Florida(where it is often just a mile or two off the coast), helping to keep temperatures warmer than in the rest of the southeastern United States during the winter. During the summer, the effect is opposite but smaller. The Gulf Stream makes the climate of offshore islands of Massachusetts, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket milder than that of Massachusetts Bay, which is isolated from Gulf Stream effects by Cape Cod. Britain and Ireland: The North Atlantic Current of the Gulf Stream, along with similar warm air currents, helps keep Ireland and the western coast of Great Britain a couple of degrees warmer than the east. However the difference is most dramatic in the western coastal islands of Scotland. Plockton, just east of the Isle of Skye, on the west coast of Scotland, has a mild enough climate to support palm-like cabbage trees even though it is a degree further north th
