Did you know The Kinzua Bridge, also known as the Kinzua Viaduct, was once the world’s tallest and longest railroad bridge. Located in McKean County, Pennsylvania, it was originally built in 1882 to transport trains across the Kinzua Creek Valley. The bridge stood 301 feet high and stretched 2,053 feet long. It was partially destroyed by a tornado in 2003, which caused a large section to collapse. Today, the remaining part has been transformed into a pedestrian skywalk with a glass platform, offering stunning views of the valley below. It is a key feature of Kinzua Bridge State Park and a popular tourist attraction. #
@DeWayfarer I know hurricanes are tropical storms.
It always irritates me when I hear people smugly denigrating the former weather-forecaster Michael Fish for saying "It won't be a hurricane" before the forecast storm proved itself a lot more powerful and destructive than the Meterological Office had estimated. (This happened some forty years ago, I forget the actual year.)
He was right. Wind speeds reached hurricane strength at times, but though a severe storm it was not a hurricane!
By chance, models I examined only yesterday showed the loss of Arctic land ice and warming Arctic Seas might actually bring much colder weather to NW Europe, at least in Winter. It will do that by reducing or stopping the circulation you describe. The warm water from tropical West Atlantic flows NW to the British Isles and Scandinavia, cools, sinks to the sea-floor and flows back past Greenland and the NE American coast. The route the water follows is not a simple gyre like a big eddy, but something of a distorted figure-of-eight loop.
