COLUMBUS – Ragweed pollen is tainting our air, just like it does every year about this time, but so far the data from the nearest air monitoring station in Dayton show a typical year.
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And a lot of rain-free days have left the pollen free to float around, making it feel as if we haven’t had much reprieve lately from runny noses, itchy eyes and sneezing.
Experts say they have no way of knowing whether that’ll hold up through September or 2015 will go down as a ragweed-a-thon.
Lots of folks were throwing around “pollen tsunami” this past spring — especially in the Northeast, where residents endured a cold, snowy winter followed by remarkably high tree-pollen numbers.
It still makes air-pollution expert Andy Roth laugh, though he’s quick to mention that the trees did go crazy for awhile this year when spring weather finally broke.
“But there’s no X-inches of rain equals twice the normal ragweed,” said Roth, who works at the Regional Air Pollution Control Agency in Dayton.