{"id":21993,"date":"2016-01-06T08:48:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=21993"},"modified":"2016-01-06T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:48:23","slug":"florida-beaches-invaded-by-portuguese-men-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/06\/florida-beaches-invaded-by-portuguese-men-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Beaches Invaded By Portuguese Men-of-War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warm waters around Florida have resulted in a growth of the population of Portuguese Man-of-War, or should that be Portuguese Men-of-War, an organism commonly confused with jellyfish (because they look just like jellyfish).<\/p>\n

The PMOWs have a sting, roughly equivalent in pain level to a bee sting, and best treated at such. Do not urinate on your PMOW sting (save your urine for an actual jellyfish sting).<\/p>\n

There are reports of many PMOWs washing up, with numerous swimmers suffering stings. The stinging tentacles, even after they fall off, are a hazard, and barefoot beachcombers can accidentally step on them. Many Florida beaches have warnings in effect.<\/p>\n

Sea Surface temperatures in florida are high:<\/p>\n

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And relatively high compared to historical data (images from Google Map with Climate Reanalyzer overlays):<\/p>\n

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Photograph above by Julia Laden<\/a>, taken this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warm waters around Florida have resulted in a growth of the population of Portuguese Man-of-War, or should that be Portuguese Men-of-War, an organism commonly confused with jellyfish (because they look just like jellyfish). The PMOWs have a sting, roughly equivalent in pain level to a bee sting, and best treated at such. Do not urinate … Continue reading Florida Beaches Invaded By Portuguese Men-of-War<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,856,2420,97,20,2421,2422,1192],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5IJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}