{"id":284137,"date":"2026-05-25T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284137\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:55:09","slug":"beach-bummer-stinky-sargassum-comes-to-south-florida-shores-%e2%80%95-just-in-time-for-holiday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284137\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach bummer: Stinky sargassum comes to South Florida shores \u2015 just in time for holiday weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 25, 2026 at 6:37 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 There was plenty of twisted seaweed, known as sargassum, along the shores of Broward County beaches over the holiday weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As seen from Sky 10, large amounts of the brown seaweed has washed up along the shores of Hollywood Beach and Fort Lauderdale Beach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crews come to the beach every morning to clean it up. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials said this year could be a record year for the amount that shows up. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sargassum lives in the ocean and is vital for marine life, but when it washes up on shore, it dries and has an incredibly bad odor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s an issue for tourism and cities and towns who have to pay to clean it up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While the holiday weekend may not be the best timing, it\u2019s something locals know they need to get used to, as the seaweed will be around through the fall. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jeff  Derderian \" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/MSLA5GVTO5AXZLY4CC5BTN7M.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jeff Derderian <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jeff Derderian is an Emmy Award-winning reporter with more than two decades of experience uncovering the truth and holding the powerful accountable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 25, 2026 at 6:37 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 There was plenty of twisted seaweed, known as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-284137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}