The seaweed is expected to show up on beaches in Florida around July, Lapointe said. Traveling west, the blob will push through the Caribbean and up into the Gulf of Mexico during the summer. The mass "was larger in January than it has ever been since this new region of sargassum growth began in 2011," he told CNN International's Rosemary Church. Brian Lapointe, a researcher at Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. This year's sargassum bloom began forming early and doubled in size between December and January, said Dr. But this year's bloom could be the largest ever, collectively spanning more than 5,000 miles (8,047 kilometers) from the shores of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico.
Sargassum - the specific variety of seaweed - has long formed large blooms in the Atlantic Ocean, and scientists have been tracking massive accumulations since 2011.
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