pollen

Although the weather looks similar Tuesday to what it was Monday, there’s a meaningful difference in how it feels – cooler!  A large dome of high pressure – fair weather – is building into Ontario and Quebec, northwest of New England, as our weather migrates southeast into New England from Canada. Aloft, this means strands of wildfire smoke from Canadian...

This warmer-than-normal January to April, contributed to fewer days with freezing temperatures, and hard freezes, thus prolonging the growing season, and more surviving allergen-producing plans and crops

For millions of allergy sufferers, climate change is bringing an earlier and more prolonged allergy season. Blooming plants and leaf out is, overall, occurring earlier than normal and lasting much longer across the United States. Climate change has been a contributing factor to earlier pollen seasons. Fewer freezing days, warmer winter nights and spring temperatures have caused plants to produce…