A massive Sargassum bloom is spreading across the Atlantic, but Florida’s beaches are likely to stay clear this season.

The seafaring bloom of sargassum has traveled west since the ... Southeast Florida and the Florida Keys will be largely free of the sargassum until late May, this month’s report predicts.

Clumps of the brownish seaweed known as sargassum have long washed up on Caribbean coastlines, but researchers say the algae blooms have exploded in extent and frequency in recent years.

Will your next trip to Florida's beaches be filled with stinky seaweed? Here's what to know about sargassum and where it currently is spotted ...

A time lapsed model depicting interannual Sargassum blooms in the North Atlantic. The alga was pushed southward and injected into the tropics, where it proliferates today, through a series of ...