# What a mess

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**Created:** [June 3, 2010, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/what-a-mess/4142 "2010-06-03T09:34:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Tim](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Tim)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/what-a-mess/4142/1 "2010-06-03T09:34:40Z")

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![](http://www2.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/news/images/features/2010/oil_slick_map.jpg)  
The projections, released today, on day 45 of the BP oil spill, come from the [National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/topics?topic=National+Center+for+Atmospheric+Research) – which, despite its name, routinely studies ocean currents as well. The NCAR released a video from a computer model, which shows that the oil will begin to drift around the tip of the Florida Peninsula around day 72 of the spill – and then currents will quickly carry it around [Florida](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/topics?topic=Florida) and up the East coast.  
It will reach North Carolina by day 80 and then flow east into the Atlantic Ocean.

> **[New Projections Show Gulf Oil Surging Up Atlantic Coast](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/oil-might-reach-north-carolina-new-projections-say/2122826/)**
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> But researchers say oil won’t reach Tri-State shores