Answer 1:
The cold California current runs southward from
the Gulf of Alaska, and the warm Gulf Stream runs
northward from the Gulf of Mexico. I do not
know if the currents that affect Hawaii have
names, but it is in the center of the northern
Pacific Ocean, so the currents are probably fairly
weak. The California current in Alaska itself
comes from the warm Japan Current that comes north
from Indonesia, but by the time it reaches Alaska
it has become cold. There is one more current
that runs through the Arctic Ocean that circles
the pole and thus hits northern Alaska; this
current is coming from the White Sea north of
Siberia.
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