Oil from spill may be entering Gulf Loop

[jus_the_facts]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/oil-from-spill-may-be-entering-gulf-loop-690795.html?cxntcid=breaking_news

Oil may be on its way.

New satellite images show oil starting to enter the Gulf Loop current, which would pull it through the Florida Keys, into the Gulf Stream and up to Palm Beach County, according to a scientist tracking the oil spewing into the gulf.

The new images, taken Saturday by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "clearly that the oil is being pulled into the Loop current," according to a release from Mitch Roffer, an oceanographer who runs Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service and has been providing daily updates on the spill's movement.

"We still don't know how long it's going to take to get around to the Keys and then the east coast of Florida - it just remains to be seen," Roffer said Saturday. That process, which is difficult to predict, would take at least a week, and possibly several, scientists say.

Richard Dodge, the dean of the Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center, said he'd seen Roffer's report and "it looks to me like he's right. "It hasn't quite happened," Dodge said, noting that currents might still shift to force the oil away. "But from the satellite photos that I saw, it sure looks like it's going to happen."

[aquart]

1. And then what? Chesapeake Bay? Long Island?

[Karenina]

5. Bye-bye Everglades...

The current heads across the Atlantic before coming that far north.

[ThomWV]

9. water runs out of the everglades, not in

The shoreline of the western glades would be harmed, to be sure - and it will be, but the interior of the glades would be untouched; water (which carries the oil) runs out from there, not in.

[Karenina]

11. I do so appreciate that reassuring info...

Do you know if it holds true under hurricane conditions? My wildest nightmare is that the winds slop this gook everywhere. Dude, do an ol' lady a favor and talk me down. This is all ju$t. $o. $tupid.

Some video from BEFORE the stabbing:

Losing Louisiana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQcPOQXc9vE&feature=channel

[Mister Ed]

6. The Grand Banks fisheries of Newfoundland? And on to Western Europe?

It all depends when and if they can stop the gusher, I guess.

[ThomWV]

10. Not really, the water's too cold. It would become tar and sink before it got that far.

[Tesha]

8. Well, eventually, BP's oil may wash up in Great Britain. Kind of appropriate, no? (NT)

[Blackhatjack]

2. We are looking at some major economic damages and job losses if this happens...

Tourism is a major driver of economies of states that border the Gulf and the Atlantic.

People do not realize how tourism dollars reverberate throughout the economies of these states.

[intheflow]

3. Not to mention fishing.

We'll only be eating seafood on the west coast.

[Ex Lurker]

4. poetic justice if it fouls Limbaughs beachfront n/t

[SlipperySlope]

7. small comfort, that

[jus_the_facts]

12. most idiotic statement of the year goes to you...

:wtf: