A bad sargassum season is not our imagination, and we are not alone in record seaweed.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/record-am...130628401.html
More than 24 million tons of sargassum blanketed the Atlantic in June, shattering the all-time record, set in 2018, by 20%, according to the University of South Florida’s Optical Oceanography Lab. And unusually large amounts of the brown algae have drifted into the Caribbean Sea.