A photo from NASA and the Gulf Loop Current

[lunatica]

It looks like the oil spill has been caught by the Gulf Loop current

[Junkdrawer]

1. Link? And what's the black stuff just off Cuba?

:shrug:

[Juneboarder]

2. Interesting...

I have yet to hear of any reports of how Cuba is handling this oil leak. Are they affected by this disaster as well? Poor things, it's not their fault at all and their whole country could be destroyed by this. We should be ashamed of ourselves.

[meow mix]

4. its where the oil is swirling in an eddy i think

and forming a giant lake

[time_has_come]

3. The scale of the maps is different, making it hard to know where the oil is

in relation to the current.

And, unfortunately, that sat photo is old, and even at that time it was just poking into the current. I shudder to think what an up to date one looks like.

[Jamastiene]

5. Is that a map of what is happening now or is that

the map of the projected path when it does reach the Loop Current? I remember seeing where they were talking about what will happen to the Outer Banks when the oil hits the Loop Current, then Florida, then the Gulf Stream. Silt from the Mississippi has been found this far north, believe it or not.


If is already has hit the Loop Current, the Florida Current will spin it right up into the Gulf Stream to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I'm NOT looking forward to that. Hurricane season is less than 2 weeks away. I'm afraid this is going to get worse than it is now and that's REALLY bad.