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What brings us milder weather and a huge opening flower
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gulf stream
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Population (2000): 716 Housing Units (2000): 625 Land area (2000): 0.750740 sq. miles (1.944407 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.080460 sq. miles (0.208391 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.831200 sq. miles (2.152798 sq. km) FIPS code: 28275 Located within: Florida ...
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The Gulf Stream is a warm Atlantic Ocean current. Gulf Stream or Gulfstream may also refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Stream \Stream\ (str[=e]m), n. [AS. stre['a]m; akin to OFries. str[=a]m, OS. str[=o]m, D. stroom, G. strom, OHG. stroum, str[=u]m, Dan. & Sw. str["o]m, Icel. straumr, Ir. sroth, Lith. srove, Russ. struia, Gr. "ry`sis a flowing, "rei^n to flow, Skr. ...
Usage examples of gulf stream.
Right on the hundred-fathom curve, and water conditions are a little squirrelly there, what with the Gulf Stream coming in so close and fresh water coming out of the fiords.
The house was painted white to be cool in the summer and it could be seen from a long way out in the Gulf Stream.
It's spring, the fish are working their way up the Gulf Stream, and with a little luck they'll make their trip in ten or twelve sets.
The Gulf Stream will be cooler and much smaller for centuries to come.
But already the great flows that would dominate the widening Atlantic were in place: A precursor of the Gulf Stream flowed, a mighty river sixty kilometers across, running south to north with the force of three hundred Amazons.
At the start of the voyage, when the ketch had wallowed in a smart chop in the Gulf Stream, Owen had been deathly seasick He rallied once they entered the region of calms, but still preferred to spend most of his time below, playing portentous selections by Mahler and Stravinsky on his implanted micromductor He was cool to the four youngsters and they in turn maintained a diplomatic aloofness from him It was impossible for them to believe that this frail aesthete had once directed a rebel armada in a near-successful strike against the Galactic Milieu.
He may head toward the northwest hoping he can find some temperature gradients if he can get close to the Gulf Stream tonight.