Houston's 'oakpocalypse' brings city four of five worst pollen days ever recorded

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Houston's 'oakpocalypse' brings city four of five worst pollen days ever recorded
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Four of the five worst-ever pollen readings occurred in the past week, according to a...

Climate change to bring more triple-digit heat, extreme rain to Houston, report saysAnswers can be found in Houston Health Department data. Every day, an employee takes air samples from a machine on the roof of the agency’s Medical Center-area lab, puts them under a microscope and counts how much pollen there is.

Four of the five worst-ever pollen readings occurred in the past week, according to a Houston Chronicle analysis of information collected since 2013. The readings on each of those days — April 6, 7, 8 and 11 — showed oak trees were by far the culprit. This April also had the worst average daily start recorded over the first 10 days of any month, the Chronicle analysis found. March 2018 and March 2020 followed second and third, respectively.

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