Florida May Dodge Catastrophic Seaweed Bullet, Oceanographer Says

A Florida oceanographer says he thinks Florida's pristine beaches like this one in New Smyrna Beach will avoid a catastrophic inundation of seaweed some have been predicting this summer. Dreamstime/TNS

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.