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persisted^ entraining SheLf Water on its eastern 

 smoothness of the Gulf Strearr front is partly 

 definition caused by cloud cover. 



edge . The 

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Storm tracks moved farther south this 

 passed up the U.S. east coast 

 (36 m/s)r tornadoes^ heavy 



monthy and several storms 



bringing winds above 70 kn 



rainsr and flooding from South 



Carolina northward. The trawler Lana CargJL sank with a full load 



scallops off Barnegat Light on the 31st. Coast Guard 



rescued the crew. The laden dragger Patricia Marig/^ 



er vessels^ was 



of 

 helicopters 



neiicopxers rescuea tne crew. i ne laaen aragger 

 homeward bound to Provincetown «<ithin sight of oth 

 lost with all hands (Schwadron 1977). 



A storm Developed on a cold front on the 16th/^ 35C km southwest 

 of New Orleans/' moved eas t -nor t heast* a rd across northern Florida 

 the next day/ and raced alono the classical storm track offshore 

 to Nova Scotia and beyond on the 16th. There was a second/ 

 milder storm in the western Gulf at the end of the month. The 

 majority of the storms tracked significantly more easterly than 

 in September/ reaching the area between Greenland and Spain. 



NQVfiDDbfir ~ t^ue to surface mixing from intense cyclonic activity/ 

 the warm anomalies disappeared this month/ and the sea surface 

 was colder than normal nearly everywhere. Anomalies of about 

 -3.5C occurred in the middle Atlantic Bight. The Gulf of Mexico 

 continueo about 1.5C colder than usual for the month. 



Between 50 and 60 km southeast of Cape hatteras/ SST's rose SC 

 from west to east across the west wall of the Gulf Stream. Both 

 the ART and the sul_fstream pictured an anticyclonic Gulf Stream 

 loop in the South Atlantic Bight. Due to cloud cover/ eddy and 

 meander observations were not clear. There was at Least one 

 anticyclonic eddy at 39N/ 7QU'30*/ and there may have been two 

 more farther east. Last month's cyclonic eddy/ with a noticeable 

 warm ring/ persisted at 35N/ 71(J. 



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