New Bedford Guide Your Guide to New Bedford and South Coast, MA
If you are sensitive to pollen you know full well that Monday pollen announced its arrival and with it congestion, sneezing, coughing and the tell-tale signs of cars being slathered with the yellow stuff.
We are presently amid two pollen peaks brought to us care of tree and grass pollens. This current peak will last approximately another dozen days or so before another irritant arrives in late July: ragweed.
The yellow stuff we are seeing on our cars is pine pollen and despite most people not being allergic to it, the grains are relatively large – 60-to-100 microns in size – and they can clog up our nasal cavities and lungs making it difficult to breath without congestion.
We will have a few more days of the messy covering before we get respite courtesy of significant rainfall on Thursday which will wash away the nasty stuff.
