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>>PaulHo+(OP)
It's an interesting article but I have to say that I've come out of it without any clear answer other than "the gulf stream would give a few degrees difference at max"

>>tetris+vc
Isn't a few degrees a lot though?

>>action+Ed
Yes, but the overall difference is more than a dozen degrees. Nearly all of it is accounted by the maritime weather (i.e. wind blowing from the water, which has more moderate variations in temperature than land) and by the "waving" of the prevailing winds caused by mountains in North America, which just so happens cause the winds to go south over land, and then turn Northeast over the Atlantic, bringing warm air to Europe... the relative contribution of the Atlantic Conveyor is much smaller than these other two.