Above: A pollen-covered bee (better it than me). Taken with an unknown camera 3 March 2017 and released under Creative Commons CC0. PxHere.
Am pleased to report that Dr. Albert Hartel (5 stars) and Allergy Asthma Immunology of Rochester (AAIR, www.aair.info) have begun reporting their daily pollen counts for 2026, that I've full clearance to summarize the data as I do, and that, as of May 18th, at least the tree counts are decreasing. I did the same for 2025 and can say it was highly informative – not only for how overly general most pollen reporting websites are, but also for how well my testing tracked with what was in the air (minus whatever in the house can set me off as well).
May the content in that page be of no value to you. For the rest of us, use 2025 and 2026 to plan breaking your Zyrtec pills in half to get to 150% of a dose during what are going to be continually and increasingly problematic.
