Jellyfish Rarely Seen Before with Powerful Sting Invade Jersey Shore!
Oh great, just in time for Labor Day Weekend! I got stung once in the Outer Banks, NC, and it was painful!
Here are the details from NBC10:
A jellyfish seen mostly in the open ocean has been turning up along Jersey Shore beaches, and experts are warning beachgoers to avoid.
“Mauve” jellyfish are more commonly found further out in the ocean — but that hasn’t stopped them from turning up on the N.J. coastline as of late. They think the fact the water went from freezing to really warm is probably the reason.
If you do run into a mauve jellyfish while cooling off at the Jersey Shore, beware: mauve jellyfish stings can be very painful and leave welts on skin, Bologna added.
“They’ve got a very powerful stinger inside them,” Bologna said. “Not necessarily lethal but gonna deliver a heck of a punch.
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