The linked
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v0ebhvehhmumss4i4gutp/Florida-s-impact-on-climate-via-the-Thermohaline-Circulation.kmz?rlkey=4youy3a4yypqvco2lxf98aauc&st=7vvyd6eu&dl=0 Google Earth KML file discusses the impact the Florida Peninsula has on Thermohaline Circulation and its ability to control our weather and climate.
The recent category 4 Hurricane Helene is a perfect example of how the 98° Sea Surface temperatures along the Florida Gulf Coast result in 44° Sea Surface temperatures along the Southern coast of Greenland where the Warm Surface current of the Thermohaline Circulation becomes the Cold Deep Current that circulates back around the planet. Thus, the current from Florida is way too warm to form the sea ice necessary to cool down the sea salt water. As a result, it melts the sea ice, mixing the salt water with fresh water which can disrupt the Thermohaline Circulation.
Pay attention over the next few days to how the warm current of the Thermohaline Circulation comes up from the equator along the Brazilian coast and is pushed into the Gulf of Mexico where it intensifies the next hurricane headed east from the Gulf of Mexico. This could be the worst one yet and my house sits in ground zero.
The KML file contains the following layers you can toggle through:
1) NASA's Thermohaline Circulation as it applies to Florida and Greenland
2) NASA's Human Footprint map
3) The growth of industry along the Southern coast of Florida
4) NASA's MODIS Aqua Sea Surface Temperatures Day
5) NASA's MODIS Sea Ice
6) Methane fields in the Everglades
7) Hurricane Ian
