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Concentrations of red tide reappearing on some Florida beaches

Posted at 5:32 AM, Oct 04, 2019
and last updated 2019-10-04 06:35:45-04

FLORIDA — It looks like red tide is creeping back into some Florida beaches.

A look at Florida Fish and Wildlife's latest red tide current status map shows low and medium concentrations off Fort Myers Beach and the Collier County coast.


All other testing sites around the state show no red tide.

Overall, summer 2019 has been largely red tide-free, in contrast to summer 2018, in which a large red tide outbreak plagued beaches in Southwest Florida, the state’s east coast and the panhandle.

This story was originally published by WFTX.