AccuWeather's Grim Forecast for Florida's Coast: Crude-y With a Chance of Tar Balls

AccuWeather has apparently moved into the oil slick prediction business, forecasting that the Loop Current (a warm ocean current that moves from the Caribbean Sea into the Gulf of
Mexico before looping west and south, exiting through the Florida
Straits) will carry the growing slick over the Gulf toward Florida.

AccuWeather.com explains:

The speed of the current, which can reach several miles per hour, can carry part of the oil much more swiftly than waters over the slight, aimless drift o...