The Loop Current flow northwards into the Gulf of Mexico. Every 6-11 months, a bulge in the current cuts off into a clockwise-rotating eddy that then drifts slowly west-southwestward towards Texas.
IN a paper entitled “Eddy Current Losses in Single-Conductor Paper-Insulated Lead-Covered Un-armoured Cables of a Single-Phase System“(J. Inst. Elec. Eng., 89, Pt. 2, No. 12 ; December 1942 ...