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29 March 2007

A high pollen count is considered to be anything above 120, meaning, 120 particles in a cubic meter of air.

Today's pollen count in Atlanta is 5937.

post by: BoringPostcards at: 10:42 | 17 comments

Ah-choo!!!

posted by BoringPostcards 29 March | 10:43

Eeee- when was the last time it rained? Rain generally clears the air, yes?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 March | 11:31

Yes, TPS... we're having an unusually dry spring, which is why it's blowing around in little drifts. SLIGHT chance of rain tomorrow, but I'm not counting on it.

posted by BoringPostcards 29 March | 11:38

I never had any seasonal allergies until I lived in Roswell, where spring average pollen counts seemed to be in the 700s. Too many pine trees! :)

posted by occhiblu 29 March | 11:42

I'll do a little rain dance for you.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 March | 11:44

It's doing the same thing in Charlotte ... yellow powder everywhere.

posted by netbros 29 March | 12:00

Pine pollen, one of the things I keep forgetting to miss about Columbia, SC. :o| But I *did* miss the azaleas.

posted by PaxDigita 29 March | 12:12

I know it's the invisible pollen that kills your sinuses and triggers allergies, but something about SEEING everything coated in yellow fuzz just reminds you of how much crap is floating around in the air.

posted by BoringPostcards 29 March | 12:15

We're knee-deep in juniper, cedar, and elm pollen here in Portland. I am miserable.

posted by Specklet 29 March | 12:36

Holy crap. Buy stock in Kimberly-Clark.

posted by deborah 29 March | 14:06

All the plants is havin' a sexie sexie orgee all around you!

posted by Lentrohamsanin 29 March | 14:22

Ours is off-the-charts high too: Alder, Ash and Poplar/Aspen/Cottonwood. I never knew I was allergic to those things, but I do now.

posted by mudpuppie 29 March | 14:25

I'd rather have pollen than benzene and exhaust. I mean, I'll be sneezing either way, it might as well be something that makes little bumblebee pants.

posted by Hermitosis 29 March | 15:15

Ack, BP. We managed to get a few drops today - enough to make bright yellow puddle rings and sidewalk cracks. It's been crazy this year.

posted by chewatadistance 29 March | 17:16

Huh. Warm winters in those locales? Has anyone figured out why the pollen counts are so high?

posted by Five Fresh Fish 29 March | 20:14

Yesterday I was amazed to actually see the pollen flying off the trees. Standing at my son's bus stop, we thought it was smoke at first, but it smelled like dust. Pollen! I even saw it in the sky, trying to disguise itself as smoke or something. I don't ever remember seeing it like this before.

posted by redvixen 29 March | 20:39

Holy crap it's 7,009 here in Charlotte, NC. No wonder I can't breathe.

posted by bristolcat 29 March | 21:26

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