The models take into account myriad factors including tides, currents, winds, water temperatures and the relative weights of an unladen swallow carrying a coconut.
More than 3,500 Intel XEON processors linked for superfast calculations have thought about the problem. They worked out that the Gulf of Mexico's powerful Loop Current is likely to push the oil eastward, hitting Florida and then swinging around to hit the fast-moving current of the Atlantic Ocean's Gulf Stream, which extends up the East Coast before moving towards Europe.
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