Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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There is allergy inducing small pollen and then there is large sized pine pollen which generally has no effect on allergies because it is too large to enter your cells. The downside of course is that pine trees release a lot of pollen and it thinly coats our outdoor surfaces. We can even see it wafting in the air on occasion. It’s important to distinguish between pine pollen and that of other genera.
One is messy, the other is literally irritating. Of course rubbing your eyes when you are allergic to other trees will rub in the pine pollen as well, which is a particulate like very fine dust.
But if you see pollen on your windshield it’s pine pollen season. Again.
I get the difference in pollen. As a lifelong sufferer I definitely get it. But the usual progression is some really fluffy off white pollen, then the bright yellow coarse pine pollen, then the oak pollen, which is tiny and what I’m most allergic to. All I’ve seen so far is some of the first kind and we’ve definitely not started getting the bright yellow pine in any decent amount yet, certainly not as much as in 2012 evidently.
Last edited by Sherifftruman; 03-26-2021 at 06:21 AM..
That seems like a stupid list then. How can Raleigh and Durham be that different? They share a border in places.
I know this list sucks, I would not trust it at all. But this reminded me of something. Sometime it has to do with the trees and plants too. I remember when I lived in one Eastern European city my allergies were terrible, but when we moved to an adjacent small city, they got so much better. I later learned that our new city having the biggest AG university in our country got a lot of botanists involved in landscape and planning. They planted variety of trees, while the other city (which was the capital) stuck with the old European tradition and only planted "male" trees. They produced no "fruit" (in quotes because I am referring to all kinds of trees and their edible and non edible "fruit") but produced a lot of pollen.
I am not saying that Durham did that. Lol, no way Durham put in that much thought into their trees. Maybe going forward they should... but I am pretty sure for a long time all of this was just an afterthought.
There is allergy inducing small pollen and then there is large sized pine pollen which generally has no effect on allergies because it is too large to enter your cells.
The big stuff gave me a raging sinus infection a few years ago. I don't have allergies.
I was in Little River this weekend. It was EVERYWHERE!!!
It was awful down here this past weekend. The front with winds and rain yesterday evening helped knock it down temporarily. Everything is blooming here now. It’s getting green.
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