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Day of the Triweeds August 2, 2018 6:16 am ER

Sargassum weed is choking Caribbean island shores and causing tourist problems in Florida, the Green Slime Guacamole Algae is spilling out of Lake Okeechobee, and now its the Red Tide on the Gulf Coast.

Red Tide, a toxic, fish-killing microscopic phytoplankton bloom of the organism Gymnodium Brevis has always been an intermittent problem in Florida waters, but now, in conjunction with other algae blooms, it is wreaking havoc in my home state.

The good news is that we don’t seem to be having a particularly bad hurricane season this year. As it turns out, Saharan dust, blown across the Atlantic, seems to be suppressing tropical storm formation in the breeding grounds off the West African coast. I can see it in the morning, a fine red dust that shows up easily on my cars, you can write on it with your finger.

The dust is blown across the Atlantic from North Africa and the Sahel, where the drought is only getting worse.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article215839815.html

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