DANIA BEACH, Fla. – Florida’s sizzling summer is bringing more than just sunshine. This week, beaches from Dania to Fort Lauderdale found themselves blanketed in thick mounds of smelly, decomposing seaweed — a now-familiar visitor known as sargassum.
Locals and visitors were greeted by the unmistakable scent of rotten eggs, a result of the seaweed releasing hydrogen sulfide gas as it breaks down under the sweltering July sun. While not dangerous in small amounts, the smell is enough to clear sunbathers from popular spots like Dania Beach.
“It’s part of the new normal during Florida summers,” said one local beachgoer. “Every few months, we cross our fingers that it
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