re: #42 Spider Mensch

wait until this rainbow hits the Gulf Stream…you ain’t seen nothing yet…if they don’t get this fucking mess plugged, like real soon..that shit hits the gulf stream and give it a year…I hate being a pessimist but this can get really really worse than it is, hard to believe but true, and effect alot more than the gulf of mexico. North Atlantic..Europe… the artic…

Not sure if you’re up to date on things, but the Gulf Stream just shed an eddy, and therefore the oil is likely to remain mostly trapped in the northern gulf for the near term.

How do I know about the eddy? I’m a bit of a hurricane tracker, and gulf stream eddys supply an additional source of heat for hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. The eddy tracks to the west and then as storms rumble across the gulf, they tap into that deep water warmth and can undergo rapid intensification.

While it’s good news for the oil spill (and about the only good news I’ve seen), it’s bad news as the eddy will be tracking along the gulf over the next several months, and increases the risk to the western Gul of Mexico from very intense hurricanes.