Allergies

[petrea_mitchell]

I have allergies to tree pollen. One of the more immediate downsides to the sudden shift to working from home is that happened just as tree pollen season was starting here, and there are a lot more trees in my neighborhood than around the office downtown.

But I have a weird second allergy season in mid-to-late December, when there shouldn't be anything making pollen around here. It's definitely something in the air; it gets worse on dry and windy days, and eases up when we get a good strong rain. It's not nearly as bad as the spring, but I'm as baffled as to what's causing it.

Comments

Mold?

[lsanderson]

Mold spores often peak in the fall, and they go down with rain and up with wind. Or at least in my mind they do