In what’s become an annual occurrence, seaweed has begun washing ashore from Miami south to Key West.
But a Florida oceanographer says that the potentially harmful impact of this season’s sargassum bloom is likely overstated and that most of the state should dodge a catastrophic effect.
Dr. Zack Jud—director of education at the Florida Oceanographic Society in Stuart, north of Palm Beach—told The Epoch Times on May 1 that Stuart’s beaches didn’t have any seaweed on them, and webcams nearby in Jensen Beach and Hobe Sound showed very little.
Strong west winds over 30 mph for several hours the previous day blew the sargassum out to sea….