Allergy experts say tree pollen levels have been extremely high this spring, particularly during recent weeks.
“This is definitely the stormy season for pollen,” Bielory told NJ Advance Media this week. “Just like April showers bring May flowers, there’s a stormy timing for pollen.”
“You can see the pollen on your cars,” he noted, saying he sometimes jokes with colleagues that he can measure the intensity of an allergy season by counting the number of cars lined up at car washes.in late April. While rain is great for washing pollen off cars, houses and outdoor furniture, it also provides nourishment for the trees that produce heavy volumes of pollen, the doctor noted.
Two big culprits during recent weeks have been birch trees and oak trees, Bielory said, adding that both generated huge numbers of pollen grains per cubic meter of air. Those numbers are now getting lower, he said, but for allergy sufferers there’s more misery ahead.
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