Allergy sufferers beware! It looks like we’re going to have an active pollen season.
Pollen counts in the Atlanta area are already up this week. Turns out, it’s not just because of the warm weather.
Pam Knox, an agricultural climatologist with the University of Georgia, also points a finger at our cold, wet winter.
“The cold temperatures provide that dormancy that we really lacked the last couple of years. And the wet conditions, of course, have been good because the trees are well-watered going into the season,” she said. “So they’re ready to produce a lot of flowers and a lot of pollen with that.”
All those conditions have Knox expecting a worse-than-usual pollen season. She says most of that will come from trees early on.
