{"id":2584,"date":"2015-04-14T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T15:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2015-04-14T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T15:17:28","slug":"pollen-loads-decrease-in-rain-but-more-is-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/04\/pollen-loads-decrease-in-rain-but-more-is-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollen loads decrease in rain but more is on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rain in the Southeast this week has cut down the amount of pollen in the air by quite a bit this week. \u00a0Trees are leafing out, which means that the pollen-bearing flowers are dropping off. \u00a0But there are plenty of other sources of pollen still to come. \u00a0You can see a list of common pollen varieties in the Southeast (and other areas) and when they are most common at\u00a0<a title=\"Pollen calendar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hsallergy.com\/patient-education\/pollen-calendar\/pollen-calendar-southeast\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hsallergy.com\/patient-education\/pollen-calendar\/pollen-calendar-southeast\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As temperatures have warmed since the 1970s, the timing of the pollen occurrence has changed as the growing season has expanded. \u00a0Some scientists also think that the higher carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere has increased pollen production from some plants. \u00a0You can read more about this in the <em>EarthGauge<\/em> article <a title=\"EarthGauge pollen and climate change\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earthgauge.net\/2015\/climate-change-pollen-and-allergy-season\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2498\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2498\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Jon Sullivan, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jon Sullivan, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rain in the Southeast this week has cut down the amount of pollen in the air by quite a bit this week. \u00a0Trees are leafing out, which means that the pollen-bearing flowers are dropping off. \u00a0But there are plenty of other sources of pollen still to come. \u00a0You can see a list of common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2685,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}