Attention allergy sufferers: It's time to stock up on boxes of tissues. Ragweed pollen levels in New Jersey are supposed to be nasty the next couple months.
We've hit the point of the year where summer is starting wind down and eventually transition into fall which means leaves falling, weather getting cool and allergies flaring up all over again.
Is The Pollen Killing You with Allergies? This week I left my windows open a little and within hours I had a coating of pollen on the inside of my car! I have never seen so much pollen, enough to write in it as you can see in the photo above.
By now you've probably seen the video out of Cumberland County of a massive amount of pollen bursting from a tree. It's just one of the signs of a what's been a very impactful allergy season.
The fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses. ~ Dictionary.com
There's alot of pollen outdoors this Spring...Our cars are a lovely shade of yellow and seedlings are flying around like tumble weeds, but how about "in" your home ...
I don't remember buying a yellow car, but that's sure what it's looked like the last week or so. The pollen in Ocean County has covered everything in a thick dusting of yellow gunk.
You probably have noticed that green film on your car's windshield of late, and your nose may have also noticed it: one of the heaviest pollen seasons in New Jersey in recent memory, a so-called "pollen tsunami."