{"id":68957,"date":"2022-07-06T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/sargassum-storm-stinky-seasonal-seaweed-sets-record-in-brevard-and-more-is-coming-this-way"},"modified":"2022-07-06T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:30:07","slug":"sargassum-storm-stinky-seasonal-seaweed-sets-record-in-brevard-and-more-is-coming-this-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/sargassum-storm-stinky-seasonal-seaweed-sets-record-in-brevard-and-more-is-coming-this-way","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sargassum storm&#8217;: Stinky seasonal seaweed sets record in Brevard, and more is coming this way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people visiting the Brevard County coastline in recent days may have noticed lots of stinky seaweed that has washed up onshore. The bad news, scientists say, is that much more is headed our way than has ever been documented before. The Caribbean Sea keeps gifting Central Florida&#8217;s beaches with mounds of mushy, stinky brown seaweed. And researchers warn that this seasonal so-called Sargassum storm is likely to get worse before easing up, as all the excess weeds at sea wash in with the winds and currents, often wrapped in a filamentous brown algae that&#8217;s only making things worse.Oceanographers expect the Sargassum to thicken on beaches from the eastern Caribbean throughout Florida&#8217;s east coast. So things could soon get messier, smellier and even potentially slightly toxic in the weeks to come as seaweed rots along Space Coast beaches, presenting major snags for surf fishermen and a tangled, smelly mess for other beachgoers. &#8220;Nitrogen appears to be increasing in the Atlantic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people visiting the Brevard County coastline in recent days may have noticed lots of stinky seaweed that has washed up onshore. The bad news, scientists say, is that much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[215,217],"class_list":["post-68957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environment","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}