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Another Record Seaweed Blob Might Hit Florida This Year, According to Scientists

Last updated: 2024/01/18 at 5:51 AM
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Another Record Seaweed Blob Might Reach Florida And Mexican Caribbean This Year
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Scientists are alerting the general public of a file sargassum accumulation within the distant Central Atlantic, near the Caribbean Sea’s oceanic border, pushed by unpredictable winds, currents, and storms.

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Photograph stories from seaweed season in 2023What’s sargassum seaweed and what’s inflicting it?

This week, researchers from the College of South Florida reported that the quantity of prickly pelagic fauna measured in December—roughly 5 million metric tons—was considerably greater than the quantity recorded on the identical time final 12 months, which was about 1 million metric tons.

“Though we predicted a rise within the November bulletin, the magnitude of this development is notable, with the December 2023 abundance representing a historic file,” USF researchers knowledgeable.

This 12 months’s announcement is much like the one made the 12 months earlier than, when the Nice Atlantic Sargassum Belt reached unprecedented heights within the first few months of 2023 and there was widespread media protection of a attainable coastal onslaught in Florida throughout the busiest journey months of the summer season.

The macroalgae finally failed to succeed in the file excessive of twenty-two million metric tons in 2022, falling precipitously by 15% in Might – a lower by no means seen since monitoring began in 2011 and an indication of the unpredictable nature and ignorance of the workings of the seafaring biomass.

Nonetheless, Chuanmin Hu, a professor of oceanography at USF, mentioned that the December tonnage “signifies that 2024 will probably be one other main sargassum 12 months.”

In the intervening time, nearly all of sargassum continues to be discovered 500 miles east of the Caribbean Sea. Nonetheless, in mid-December, a big bloom appeared close to the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela. In keeping with USF, the bloom then moved northeast to Trinidad and Tobago.

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Photograph stories from seaweed season in 2023

Florida seaweed season pictures (Supply: FB Group Sargassum Seaweed Florida: Daily Updates and Photo Reports)


Siesta Key/Crescent Seaside

Bal Harbour, FL

Jupiter Canine Seaside

Northside of Boynton Seaside

Venice Seaside

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What’s sargassum seaweed and what’s inflicting it?


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Sargassum is a kind of seaweed that floats on the ocean’s floor, characterised by its brown coloration and air-filled pockets. This seaweed is significant for marine ecosystems however can affect tourism and coastal environments when it accumulates on seashores.

The latest, unusually giant bloom of Sargassum could also be influenced by elements like human waste, local weather change, and agricultural runoff. Elevated nitrogen ranges from these sources and ranging ocean temperatures are probably contributing to its fast development. Adjustments in climate patterns, ocean currents, and nutrient provide from sources just like the Sahara Desert’s mud are additionally thought of influential.

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