As spring takes hold and we start to enjoy warmer temperatures, we also begin to contend with allergy season, which is ramping up quickly in the tri-state.
Coming off a cold winter, warm temperatures have been elusive up until the past week or so, and that may have delayed the onset of high pollen levels somewhat, but trees are blooming now in full force and we’ll only get hit harder in coming weeks and months as our world gets greener.
Tree pollen has been high since mid-March, so if you’re sniffling and sneezing now, you can blame the elms, cherries and maples among all the others.
Tree pollen remains high through April and begins to taper off in May. But May is when grass pollen takes over, and it stays intense well into July.
By August you may start feeling a bit of relief. That’s when grass pollen becomes less of a problem and before the ragweed season kicks in.
Allergy season runs parallel to the growing season, which is the range between the last freeze of spring and the first freeze of fall.
Thanks to global warming, in recent decades our average temperatures have gone up and our growing season has gotten longer, which means our allergy season has expanded, too.
