September 7, 2005. There is a circulation center that has manifested in the Gulf of Mexico. It has merit. The 'system' to all these 'eddies' starts as a single feeder flow off the equator. One can easily discern a group of clouds/moisture coming up over Central America and Mexico. When the air mass reaches the Yucatan Peninsula it divides. One branch is pulled to the east over the Atlantic by a vortex flow off the Arctic Ocean. The next peripheral flow allows that initial air mass off the equator to move across the central USA on the way to the Arctic Ocean over Canada. Now. The circulation mass over the Gulf is between the two air flows and is actually an 'eddy' of both.
