"I've had a lot of people ask me, 'Will the oil reach Florida?' " said scientist Synte Peacock, who was involved in the National Center for Atmospheric Research's modeling of six computer simulations of the Gulf of Mexico's Loop Current. "Actually, our best knowledge says the scope of this environmental disaster is likely to reach far beyond Florida, with impacts that have yet to be understood."
The Loop Current, fed by warm water from the Caribbean, curves around the gulf and connects to the Florida Current before joining the Atlantic's gulfstream.
