Record-breaking amounts of seaweed drifting toward Florida, experts say
The total amount of sargassum, the green and yellow-ish seaweed that washes up on South Florida beaches in spring and summer, is at record-breaking levels, said researchers in a monthly report.
The seaweed, which often stinks of rotten eggs once it washes ashore, has not reached South Florida yet, but it’s currently drifting this way.
A mapping system devised by the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab shows that sargassum levels for April in the eastern Caribbean and the a