Question? Why so much labrador current?

[capt. jakeg]

I fish out of rudee and over the past couple of months, maybe almost a year, I have noticed that the labrador current is running MUCH stronger than normal. Most days out in the canyon there is between 1 and 2 knots of current coming from the north. During the summer, the current should be from the south. We have had pea green water all summer. I havent seen sargassum grass in a very long time. There are no chicken dolphin. No eddies have been allowed to enter the mid atlantic whatesoever, and it even seems as though the labrador even even pushing the main body of the gulf stream further out to sea. Notice on the included picture how strong the current is pushing on the gulf stream.
These are not normal summer conditions. When bottom fishing most days you cannot even hold bottom with 5 pounds of lead, not that it matters because all of the tilefish holes seem like the fish have left them entirely. There is no sea bass to be found, but down in Hatteras, they are everywhere. Is it possible that there is some reason the labrador current is running harder than normal? Is it possible that the current has pushed the bottom fish south and kept the eddies and pelagics away? Any of you guys have any ideas? I have not seen anything on the internet saying anything about this, but it is definitely happening.

[HeadHunt]

We noticed the same thing in Hatteras this spring. One week in March we had 1-2 kts of down current in 50 fa. Never seen that before but the fishing was good.

HH

[calebw]

The ice caps are melting pushing cold water down

[Split Bill]

Rainy Summer? I would think that all the rain pushing out of the rivers and bay would contribute significantly to this.

[Sea Draggin]

Global Warming.

[capt. jakeg]

The ice caps are melting pushing cold water down

I honestly thought about that. I thought about it being rain water too, but there is wayyyy to much water moving to be rain water. Maybe it is some kind of east coast el nino where there is some strange force that pushes an unusual current. I would really like to hear from Mitch Roffer or a meteorologist and get an accurate scientific answer about it.

[Deep C]

The past few years I have noticed a change in the gulf stream off Florida running harder than it used to. That engine is actually driven by melting ice cap hypersaline water sinking and actually "pulling" the stream north... Its possible that the "push from the labrador cuurent could be related to same.

I'm not buying into "global warming" .In fact the global tem has dropped for the last few years. The ice cap melt though evident in one place as being greater than normal, shows up elsewhere as being a thickening or growth of frozen water. A redistribution if you will.

I havn't got access to all kinds of data but my thoughts lean toward it being cyclical... The redistribution theory could be backed up by water levels. I'm not referring to shore changes that are the result of errosion. Rather, there are marks on fixed bulkheads that have remained exactly the same relative position to the tide marks going on 45 years that I have been observing them...

There , I said it. Solved the worlds mysteries. Now back to our regularly scheduled forum blabbering...

[Sea Draggin]

Google thermohaline circulation (THC) and global warming.

Its all speculation.

[wtownflyfisher]

I had seen this article online this morning... could be a factor.

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pb...WS11/909019988

[Deep C]

Now I just read that article and I have to just roll my eyes... We have had only three tides higher than normal this summer here in north jersey and all of them were storm related... None even reached projected "coastal flooding" level that we get in even minor north easters. Again I have marks on bulkheads here from over 40 years ago that show the levels to be almost exactly what they have been all that time.
Then I heard a concept that the "florida" current that "feeds the "gulfstream is weaker than usual?
I just got done above pointing out that the stream axis has been running faster for recent years. Used to run 2-3 and I have had it cooking at 4.1 or more several nights swording over the last couple years. A light night will be 2.5-3 but most are pushing 4. The highest I clocked was 4.9 knots.