Today's flowers are making Atlanta history this week.
Not sure if you've noticed, but things might have been seeming a bit.... yellow, recently? Cars, bikes, sidewalks, streets, benches, plants, clothes, YOU? Coated in sticky yellow dust.
*sneeze sneeze*
This is called pollen. Plants use pollen to pollenate their seeds. Um.. duh. Well, what happens, is the sticky yellow dust flies around on bugs and wind and fertilizes the seeds of other flowers. Evergreens, obviously, do not find this necessary.
It's been especially yellow recently. That is probably because, since it is so warm so early, and since it was never even that cold, plants that usually bloom over a very spread out period of time are overlapping all together.
The previous record in Atlanta for pollen was made in 1999. 6 thousand particles per square meter. Sounds like a lot, huh?
Then yesterday.
8 thousand.
Then today.
9 thousand.
Tomorrow? Who knows?
I just hope you are not allergic, because you are in for a rough time....
*sneeze sneeze*
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