Jeff Berardelli is WFLA’s Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist Over the past week, a large outbreak of Red Tide has ...

In September, BFAR issued a red tide warning for Bais Bay due to high toxin levels that posed risks of PSP. Subsequent sampling in the affected bays detected elevated concentrations of pyridinium ...

No, red tides were documented in the southern Gulf of Mexico as far back as the 1700s and along Florida's Gulf coast in the 1840s. Fish kills near Tampa Bay were even mentioned in the records of ...

"It's not great," Tomasko said. "It kind of shows that we would expect to have more red tide in Sarasota Bay with what we are seeing offshore." Tomasko is optimistic that although red tide is ...