Why Atlanta’s Trees Are So… “Frisky” This Year
2009 Brian Judd This 2009 photograph captured a sneeze in progress, revealing the plume of salivary droplets as they are expelled in a large cone-shaped array from this mans open mouth, thereby, dramatically illustrating the reason one needs to cover hios/her mouth when coughing, or sneezing, in order to protect others from germ exposure. How … Continued
Pollen is how trees reproduce. And this season, they are especially frisky.
WABE Assistant News Director Charles Edwards says he’s never suffered from allergies. Until now. And his repeated sneezing proves he is suffering. 
But why is it so bad this year?
To find out, I phoned Estelle Levetin, a professor of Biology at the University of Tulsa. She knows pollen. I asked her if Atlanta’s 8000+ count is really that awful.
“I guess it’s hard to know what’s good and what’s bad,” she says. ”What’s good for the trees is bad for people.”
Levetin says a wet, warm winter like we’ve had puts trees in the mood to reproduce. And she says we’re probably a month or more away from relief.
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