One way to visualize Tampa Bay's 1,624 tons of dead fish

We are now at 1,624 tons of dead fish that have been pulled from the waters surrounding Pinellas County.

• It’s hard to think about how big that is, but we tried out best to show you with a little local flair.
• Pile 'em all up and they'd go a decent way up the Beer Can Building in downtown Tampa. (We'll leave you to imagine the smell.)

Some scale: The heaviest blue whale on record weighed 200 tons. This is more than eight times that.

According to themeasureofthings.com, that's also ...

• 🗽 11 times as heavy as the Statue of Liberty (without its base).
• 🦖 250 Tyrannosaurus rexes.
• 🚗 About 900 cars.
• 🚀 21 Space Shuttles.

Now that you’ve got a grip on all that dead fish, here’s some better news: Pinellas County spokesman Tony Fabrizio told Axios things are moving in the right direction from our ongoing red tide threat.

• "We’re encouraged. It looked a lot better over the last two days. But the Gulf temperature is really high — 88 degrees. We’re hopeful at this point."