California Current

The California Current is a cold ocean current in the North Pacific. His name has its coastal climate, he determined by the State of California, the California electricity significantly.

The California current is caused by buoyancy cool waters to the surface and amplified by the offshore trade winds. It is part of the northern Pacific circuit. The California electricity extended the North Pacific current from north to south along the North American West Coast and then goes into the North Equatorial Current.

The California electricity influenced the climate of California. It causes a cooling of the annual average temperature in California compared to, for example, southern Italy, situated on the same latitude, around 6 ° C. In summer, it comes through the California electricity often to mist formation. The cold this time of year about 15 ° C California current impinges on the mainland strongly heated and dissolved in the coastal region of the typical California coastal fog from.