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As the warm Gulf Stream moves north of Cape Hatteras it moves further offshore. A cold counter current forms closer to shore and flows south and west from Labrador along the Atlantic coast of the US past New England and as far as the Mid-Atlantic states.

This is called the "cold wall" and keeps the ocean waters along the beaches quite a bit colder than those from Hatteras south.