Photos of 'pollenpocalypse' in North Carolina

[Still Waters]

If you suffer from pollen allergies, just looking at the above photo may make you want to choke.

It was taken Monday by photographer Jeremy Gilchrist, who used a drone to snap aerial pictures of the yellowish green haze blanketing Durham, North Carolina. The pollen wasn't just coating cars and patio chairs -- it was hanging thick in the air.

He called it pollenpocalypse.

Gilchrist told CNN he was driving around when he noticed a green cloud in the air.

"It was surprising to see it up that high," he said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/09/health/north-carolina-pollen-photograph-trnd/index.html

https://www.sciencealert.com/these-photos-show-a-pollenpocalypse-enveloping-north-carolina

[Herr Falukorv]

The Horror 

[Tatetopa]

Makes my eyes itch even online.

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Coastal Alabama has its pollen season but the worst I've ever experienced was in central Mississippi.  For about 2 weeks every spring you'd see those yellow/green clouds drifting down from the pine trees.  People didn't bother to try to wash their cars because it did no good during that time.  I was mowing the first time I saw it drifting down and I wasn't sure what it was.  I don't suffer from allergies but that stuff was so dense you had to wear something over your mouth anyway or you be coughing it up later.