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Satellite (Landsat) picture of Chesapeake Bay (center) and Delaware Bay (upper right) – and Atlantic coast of the central-eastern United States. Image credit: Landsat/NASA, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. More information: Don Scavia's hypoxia forecast page This year's Chesapeake B
Chesapeake Bay areas with low oxygen levels, which can kill aquatic life, are predicted to be smaller for summer 2022 — if weather holds out.
Satellite (Landsat) picture of Chesapeake Bay (center) and Delaware Bay (upper right) – and Atlantic coast of the central-eastern United States. Image credit: Landsat/NASA, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. This summer's Chesapeake Bay "dead zone" is expected to be smaller than the long-term
VIMS dead-zone report card on conditions in the Chesapeake Bay indicates that the overall severity of hypoxia was slightly higher in 2021.
The annual report of “dead-zone” conditions in the Chesapeake Bay from William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science indicates the overall severity of hypoxia was slightly higher than usual during 2021, due largely to the relatively early onset and late termination of low-oxygen waters.