1089 grains per cubic meter

[MountainDon]

That's yesterday juniper pollen count, and I knew it before I read it. 





normal is less than 100

[Windpower]

Is that the 'yellow dust' I used to see all over everything when I went to Houston ?

[southernsis]

We don't have the junipers, but we get the pollen from the oaks. Thick yellow power everywhere. Nothing helps the allergies when they start.

[Windpower]

It didn't seem to bother me, but it was amazing how thick it got sometimes

the rental cars would start out clean, and overnight just covered with the stuff

[MountainDon]

This time of year you can walk up to a juniper tree or bush and give it a shake that releases a cloud of pollen that is incredibly dense. Sort of looks like smoke.

If I stay inside the house with it's electrostatically cleaned air (built into furnace) my symptoms are reduced. So I don't go for morning walks this time of year. I shift to evenings as pollen output is supposed to be lessened in the later part of the day.

[Sassy]

Gee, I'm glad I don't have allergies to pollen.  My dad & brother were miserable during certain parts of the year.  We have the oaks & pines - we have yellow pollen all over everything in the spring - it hasn't started yet up here.

[MountainDon]

To add to my misery by the time the pollen count down here goes doen to where I am managing again, the snow in the mountains will be gone. Then when I go up there I can relive the experience as the process repeats in the higher elevations. 

[cordwood]

Local honey made from that pollen is said to ease allergic reactions to the pollen that the honey came from.
If your local bee keepers haven't been wiped out by colony collapse!

[Sassy]

Good advice, I didn't think of that. 

[glenn kangiser]

Beconase or Vancenase a few times a year cures it for me but little problem since I have taken refuge in the hills...