A FWC map from Tuesday afternoon showed varying degrees of red tide in the water off Manatee and Sarasota counties.
An intense blast of cold air is making its way into the central United States this week with temperatures up to 50 degrees below average and over 100 daily low records at risk of being broken.
The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho de la Nueva España, and, finally Gulf of Mexico.
The latest winter storm is expected to affect the central Plains Tuesday before moving east into the Mid-Atlantic Wednesday, according to forecasters.