Forecast

Rain is a blessing for allergy sufferers!

In the west of Styria, the weather will remain largely unsettled, providing allergy sufferers with some relief. In eastern and southern Styria, it will be sunnier at the beginning of the week and while the pollen count will only rise to a moderate level, high concentrations of fungal spores are expected. Rainfall on Wednesday will bring relief. The weather situation will improve towards the weekend and with it the intensity of the expected allergic stress.

The rain of the previous week has ended the period of the highest grass pollen count. Although grasses are still flowering on roadsides, in meadows, in forests and at higher altitudes in Styria, pollen concentrations are usually only low to moderate.
Maize is beginning to flower, particularly in eastern and southern Styria. This sweet grass produces very large and relatively heavy pollen grains. Therefore, allergy sufferers may experience additional stress in the immediate vicinity of flowering maize fields.

Plantain and dock also produce dust and thus cause additional stress. Stinging nettles are also in bloom and their pollen can irritate and moderately affect sensitised people.

As the summer progresses, we are approaching the last major stress phase for pollen allergy sufferers, the season of field weeds. In particularly sun-exposed locations in eastern and southern Styria, the first specimens of mugwort may already be flowering. The impact of these plants is currently still limited to the immediate vicinity of the plants. Over the course of the month, however, it can be assumed that more and more plants will reach flowering stage and cause corresponding exposure in people who are sensitised to the pollen of this composite flower.

Concentrations of fungal spores are currently at a high level. Rain gives allergy sufferers a brief respite, but then the levels of fungal spores quickly rise again.

The pollen spectrum is currently relatively stable. For this reason, the frequency of text forecasts will be reduced to once a week for the coming weeks. However, our team at polleninformation.at will continue to monitor the situation on an ongoing basis and will of course send out appropriate information should there be any changes to the expected pollution levels. The monitoring centres operated by us and our colleagues will remain active in order to keep all the services provided, such as the hourly allergy risk, up to date.

In addition, pollen from goosefoot plants, labiates and umbellifers are in the air - overall at a low to moderate level.