It’s that time of the year when yellow pollen coats everything from windshields to streets. It’s not just from flowers and shrubs. Pollen That Piles Up Under Oak and Pine Trees also add some of the sneeziest allergens to the mix.

Some study sugges that warmer tempratures – Climate change is driving miami’s tempratures up IF you haven’t noticed – Will encourage trees trees to produce more pollen earlier. But there are many many facts that contribute to pollons production and temperature is just one of them. In subtropical south florida, the days can get so hot that the rising mercury might actually discourage pollen production.

One study frequently pointed to draws on data collected over a 28-yar period across the united states, including in Tallahassee and Tampa. It found that up until 2018 warming temperatures and increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere caused increasing pollen concentrations, as well as earlier and longer polyne seasons.

But other factors complicate things down here in South Florida, said Marc Frank, A Botanist at the University of Florida’s Herbarium in Gainesville.

“It just depends. Like, are we in a dryt period? Was there a lot of cold before that warm?

In most of the country, there is a little pollen to trigger allergies in the winter months being plants are not actively flowering and producing pollen. Then in the spring, Trees pump out polons which the wind spores are, including into your nostrils. But in South Florida, When Plants are Always in Bloom, Pollen Production Tends to Be Year-Round, Frank Said.

A map from the US National Phenology Network Shows that in 2024 in the Central Us Spring Arrived Earlier, but in florida the timing was different. Spring Arrived Late in the Northern Part of the peninsula and there wasn’st a significant change in the Arrival of Spring in the southern part of the peninsula.

Frank also expects that extreme high temperatures might actually Reduce Polllen in South Florida.

While Warm Temperatures will lead to Increased Pollen Counts Over a longer period in some area of ​​the country, there is some data indicating Actually have a negative impact on pollen production, Frank Said.

“If South Florida Experiences More Days Above 90 ° F, Especially Unseasonally Hot Days Earlier in the Year, It is Possible that Total AMONT of Pollen and the length of alloregie SEASONUDGY SEASON BCREESE,” Frank said.

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