By southern sea, I mean all the sea between Antarctica and Africa/S America/Australia. The pacific ocean is equally vast but yet it’s milder. I was looking at global winds on a website and almost the entire Southern Sea perpetually faces 60+ kmph winds. There are even 3000+ km long stretches of continuous 80 kmph winds. Why?
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The currents can circumnavigate the globe without running into a land mass, allowing them to grow pretty strong. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The issues arise when those currents run into the southern points of the America’s and Africa. The land masses disrupt these strong, predictable currents in unpredictable ways. Those also happen to be spots with a lot of maritime traffic.
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