Did you know you can get a daily allergen report from the Weather Channel? A chart shows the pollen count in St. George is low today. However, the amount of tree pollen circulating is cited as high. The forecast is that it will be very high on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 24 and 25.
According to an article on an allergist’s site, spring allergies in Southern Utah peak in April. Tree pollen allergies, it notes, can be particularly challenging.
Local trees that are likely suspects for the spring dust-up, according to the Allermi site, include: acacia, alder, ash, birch, box elder, cedar, cottonwood, cypress, elm, Juniper, mesquite, mulberry, oak, sycamore and walnut.
What do you think about this allergy season in St. George? Are they getting worse or just business as usual among the red rocks of Utah? Is it just pollen making you sneeze and itch, stuffing you up and running you down?
Maybe you lay the blame on something else: something kicked up from beneath the wind-blown desert sand, a local algae bloom or the geoengineering some people assert is crisscrossing the skies. We’d like to hear from you.
For those of you who have allergies, what do you do to make it through allergy season?
–Sarah Torribio
The St. George View 
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