Posted by Adam Quinan on July 12, 2005 at 02:44:05 from 65.48.152.132 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Hurricane Dennis versus Ed Kiser posted by Ed Kiser on July 12, 2005 at 01:13:24:
Ed asked: After all, that is what that Gulf Stream does in the Atlantic. It year-round gathers the sun's warmth from us here, and in the tropics, and transports it up across the Atlantic to bath a certain little island that is so very far north with its warmth. It also brings a warm damp breath to clash with the Arctic colds from the North Sea to produce that wonderful combination of FOG. But I do wonder how it would be in that island without the warmth gathered from our shores here in Florida and carried by the ocean currents.
For one possible answer look at the climate of James bay and southern Hudson's Bay which is a maritime climate at about the same northerly latitude. There be polar bears and frozen seas in the winter.
Or the Kamchatka peninsula in Asian Russia, or Vancouver Island which actually has a similar climate to Britain.