City officials in the Mexican Caribbean have revealed that distance, travel speed and currents have led experts to predict a non-existent flow of sargassum seaweed this summer.
According to News Riviera MayaDirector of the Quintana Roo Sargassum Monitoring Network, Esteban Jesus Amaro Mauricio, said Cancun, the Riviera Maya and other key tourist destinations will be Sargassum-free during the summer vacation period.
Amaro Mauricio revealed that daily monitoring of stink algae showed a lack of arrival over the next three months, due to the distance, speed of travel and currents of Sargassum from Africa.
“From what we observed via the satellite, it’s very clean,” Amaro Mauricio told the Riviera Maya News. “There is almost no Sargassum between Jamaica and the Yucatan Peninsula. As the Sargassum continues to move north as it has been, we will have lean months, ie we will not have a significant presence.
City officials in the Mexican Caribbean have revealed that distance, travel speed and currents have led experts to predict a non-existent flow of sargassum seaweed this summer.
While there will be small patches of seaweed making their way onto beaches in and around Quintana Roo, officials said city workers remove them immediately before they start to stink.
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