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paradoxGentleman posted:e: Which leads me to another question: what happens when two water currents move one against the other, when they clash? Whirlpools? Bad weather zone? It just doesn't happen in nature? To vastly oversimplify... Ocean currents mostly circulate warm water from the equator to the poles and cold water from the poles to the equator. They tend to work in big circles, and often (not always) skirt coasts. Coastal areas near a cool current will be cooler than you'd expect, coastal areas near a warm current will be warmer than you'd expect. Areas where cool and warm currents meet tend to get more storms and fogs than other places. Earth's currents look like this.  They don't really "clash" so much as kind of flow around each other in a really really big swirl. You're not going to get whirlpools because of it. Whirlpools form on a much much smaller scale. There are some frighteningly large ones that reliably happen in certain places, but they have noth8ing to do with large-scale ocean currents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maelstrom Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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