FloridaRed Tide

Read our Red Tide Report page for updates.  The bloom in Sarasota County is growing, but slowly.

The Red tide bloom down in Ft Myers Florida and Naples Florida is a totally different story! It’s increasing in strength and size rapidly. In fact there is either a brand new red tide bloom off Charlotte Harbor or the off Naples has spread all the way north to there.

These reports are coming from FWRI and are a week old.  We’ve had big rain since then, which washes fertilizer from the farms into their river and then into the Gulf feeding the K. Brevis algae that make up red tide.  However we’ve also had a cold front that’s bringing lower temperature which may cool the water and thus discourage this Harmful Algal bloom from growing.

Florida residents and tourists please feel free to comment below.  Also we’d like to welcome the sudden influx of viewers from Texas and wish them the best  with their recent red tide.

I also like to get some feed back from everyone about if I shuld dedicate a page to a Texas red Tide Report, just rename the Florida Red Tide report to theRed tide Report or just not include the information about red tides in Texas. Maine, other countries, etc.  It is a lot to keep up with!