Experts predict later, stronger hayfever season

2012 saw the longest hay fever season in twenty years, leaving an estimated 9 million sufferers in agony. This year, scientists have predicted that the constant changes in weather will result in a shorter but more intense hayfever season, with June expected to be particularly bad.

Beverley Adams-Groom, Chief Palynologist from the National Pollen and Aerobiology Research Unit at the University of Worcester said, “This year the pollen seasons are late due to the cold winter and this means that more plants will be flowering simultaneously. So, a shorter season but perhaps more severe than last year is expected”.

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