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Florida's red tide has worsened again along parts of the state's Gulf Coast.Many believed Hurricane Michael would cleanse the coastline of the harmful algae, but it didn't.Experts say the best way to clear the red tide off the coast would be multiple fronts bringing northerly winds.

If there wasto be a hurricane in Florida this summer,it would at leasthelp put a stop to the state's worst red tide in a decade, the locals thought.

But after all the devastation of Hurricane Michael, the coastal red tide has ramped up again, and so have the dead fish , according to the Miami Herald. Hurricanes can circulate enough water that helps to cleanse an area of the algae, but when the blooms are this bad, as they have been along the Gulf Coast this summer, it takes more than one storm to cleanse the area, the report added.

"I kept hearing this argument, 'Yeah, let’s bring a hurricane and that’ll flush everything out.' But not necessarily,"Nick Shay, an oceanographer with the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, told theHerald.

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A lifeguard's "no swimming" flag flies above a beach after Palm Beach County officials announced that all county beaches were closed due to red tide affecting coastal areas on Oct. 4, 2018 in Lake Worth, Florida.

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There was a good reason for optimism: one year ago, Hurricane Irma flushed out the red tide from the Florida Keys, allowing healthy fish populations to thrive again, the Herald also said. But this year's red tide has been relentless, , several manatees and hundreds of turtles in the worst such event for the state since 2006.

The way to end this nightmarish red tide quickly, NOAAoceanographer Rick Stumpf told the Herald, is for several fronts with northerly winds to sweep down into the Sunshine State and push the algae offshore. But that didn't happen a year ago, and there's no guarantee it'll happen this year.

The lengthy red tide , according to the Tampa Bay Times. Hotels have seen fewer customers as vacationers cancel trips, and restaurants have been more empty.

" in my 40 years here," Rae Ann Wessel, natural resource policy director for the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, told The Weather Channel in a special report.