Talk:California Current

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Problematic Photo Caption
The photo that purports to demonstrate upwelling is both uncharacteristic and poorly captioned. A better photo showing a fogbank along the shore is in order. I corrected the part of the caption that erroneously referred to water upwelling from the ocean bottom---upwelling is only from sub surface waters; if it actually came from the seafloor, it would be nearly freezing. The part that refers to the lack of clouds in connection with upwelling having something to do with "lack of evaporation" is false. In this instance, there's an offshore wind evident which, since it originates over land, is dry. The more common situation, and the one which better demonstrates the most common effect of upwelling would show how it condenses moisture into low clouds. Tmangray (talk) 06:16, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

How about information about the current?
Upwelling and Finding Dory and temperatures all those things are nice, but how about some basic information, too? A current is water moving. How fast does it move? How wide is the stream? How deep? FatBear1 (talk) 02:58, 29 July 2018 (UTC)