Happy sargassum season! From now until October, beachgoers in parts of Florida and the Caribbean can expect to clamber over massive piles of putrefied seaweed in order to access the ocean, and they can marinate in its hideous stench while they sunbathe
, that ambience comes courtesy of the giant tangle of seaweed drifting across the Atlantic. To help you appreciate the meaning ofin this context, some metrics: The blob is believed to measure 5,000 miles across. It may weigh as much as 6.1 million tons, and it is definitely visible from space. It is quite possibly the largest blob of its kind on record, and it’s currently due to make landfall in the Keys as early as next week, bringing with it the omnipresent odor of death.
Even though it sounds singularly bad, the blob is not, in and of itself, an oddity: Big flats of sargassum are naturally occurring in the Atlantic’s northern waters and have been making an annual migration from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico since 2011, according to the New York . The problem is that the blob gets bigger every year, “and this year looks like it’s going to be the biggest year yet on record,” Brian Lapointe, a research professor at Florida Atlantic University who studies sargassum, told the. Already in January, the blob weighed in as the most immense blob of any other month on record. “This is quite early to see this much, this soon,” Dr. Lapointe observed of the blob, which has presumably only gathered strength in intervening weeks.
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