It's Allergy Season Folks!

If you are a sufferer of allergies, then this upcoming weekend is not going to welcome you well. You may want to go to Walgreen's and stock up on some additional allergy medicine. It really is a little early to be receiving some of those mid-spring sinus and coughing symptoms. Climate and pollen forecasts expect levels for this spring season to heightened due to the dry conditions experienced normally in a La Nina year. The recent spell of warm and extremely dry weather along the Gulf Coast has confused the region’s plant population to start pollinating early; therefore, triggering unseasonably high pollen counts for this time of the year. Predominant pollen species in bloom are cedar, juniper, and oak; however, hay fever is also at an unusual high due to ragweed producing double and triple the amount of pollen grains.
So even though the weather is going to be above average and exceptional this weekend, you may want to bring that box of Kleenex for those sniffles. Possible rain on Monday and Tuesday of next week should bring the extremely high levels back to normal.