Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1919 — Gulf Stream Increases in Volume of Heat En Route [ARTICLE]

Gulf Stream Increases in Volume of Heat En Route

The gulf stream would be little felt on the coast of Europe did it not receive a great addition to its volume of heat when en route. This is by means of a gentle flow from th£ northeast trade wind current that passes outside the Caribbean islands and the Bahamas. The surface temperature of this outside current is about the same in its passage along the West Indian islands as the gulf stream in the Straits of Florida, but ft is less violent in its movements and there is less. intermingling of its upper and lower waters, so that it arrives off Cape Hatteras with a much higher temperature than that ’ of- the more turbulent gulf stream.