When in May does that green pollen dust cover our porches and walkways?
It is terrible. No sense cleaning anything outside right now. Keep you cushion in or cover them. The good news is that it only lasts a week or two.
It's really bad. Such a nice day and I have my windows closed...
Starting just about now. I know it'll get a lot worse before it gets better (at least in my yard, with our trees). I keep a snow/ice brush in the car now so I can clear off the windshield.
Tree pollen is super high right now, Oak, Birch, and Maple,
http://www.wunderground.com/DisplayPollen.asp?Zipcode=07040
The pollen burst is happening now. Our porch is covered, as well as, any room of our house that DH left the windows open in today. The first year that we moved here I cleaned all the windows in our house, only to have the burst happen the following week. Now I know better, and always wait until after Mother's Day to have our windows cleaned.
Sure hope that it will be over soon ...any allergy sufferers out there can commiserate ..I cannot wait for it to be over and will keep windows shut and keep taking allergy meds! The worst in years ..
I recall that the pollen hung around long after Mothers Day last year. Rain turned the pollen to a paste which found homes in every brick, stone joints and any crevice! It actually harden and efforts at hosing the patio down created yellow pools of water which resettled in another spot!
And don't even get me started one the pollen on patio furniture!
Speaking of plastic surfaces such as chair sraps, I found that rubbing alcohol on a sponge worked very well. Used to use commercial cleaners even Clorox in desperation, alcohol was more effective.
A good hard rain might well wash a lot of it away. But, often, we just get the softer rain that turns it into yellow mud. I'm waiting to see what happens in the next few days before tackling it.
The people who are expert in these things are saying that 3 of the next 4 days will feature very high pollen counts..........Thursday,
Friday and Saturday should be monsters.
Simple suggestions........if you do not wear glasses.........wear sunglasses while outside to protect that sensitive area. Wear a hat as the hair picks up a lot of pollen. Wash your hair every day till this passes.
My suggestions..........although it barely seems necessary.........run your a/cs on a low setting. Keeping windows down and using the a/c to filter will help. I swear the stuff gets through screened windows and contributes to the misery.
sac said:A good hard rain might well wash a lot of it away. But, often, we just get the softer rain that turns it into yellow mud. I'm waiting to see what happens in the next few days before tackling it.
Sorry, I have to do this.
"Sky's been cleared by a good hard rain ..."
https://youtu.be/CmsEn31SK_E
And it's from last year, in Australia.
I now have a kelly green car as of yesterday. You can't even brush the stuff off the car!
I now have an allergy for the very first time! Itchy eyes, dry cough. Why this year? We get this green mess every year. Maybe our fridgid winter caused a banner pollen season. My forsythias are still in flower, which is very late, they are usually gone mid April.
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Maplewood has some kind of pollen that covers our front porch every May, usually for 5-6 days, and it is so thick that I usually have to do a thorough water hosing of the porch, sometimes with a rag, 2 or 3 times to get it off the porch. I'm wanting to get our porch refinished this month, and know that this pollen would mess up the process, so I'm wanting to see if anyone knows when it happens?
Has anyone made records over the years or otherwise noticed this pollen and knows when it happens, either by typical dates in May or by some metric like a few days after the dogwoods bloom?