Friday, November 02, 2018

This is the last regular ‘Pollen and Spore Report’ for this year. The recent cold, wet weather has brought the pollen count to near zero and dropped the spore count into the very low range. There are a very few Juniper pollen in the collection this morning and we have the possibility of Juniper pollen in our air all winter by long range transport coming usually from the Ozarks and sometimes from as far away as the Edwards plateau in Texas. For the most part our pollen and spore levels will not cause anyone problems during the winter. However, there is lots of junk in the air and there are still lots of indoor allergens to worry about. If we get some unseasonable warm weather and the outdoor counts come up we will send out some special reports. Otherwise hopefully we will be back when the trees begin to pollinate in the spring 2019.