Allergy Forecast: Here’s When Season Will Peak In California

It’s officially spring! While that means warmer temps, super-blooms and the slow crawl towards summer, the season also brings allergies.

According to a 2019 allergy forecast from AccuWeather and Weatherbug, California is currently in the thick of Allergy season.

"At some point during the year, an estimated 50 to 60 million people in the U.S. - - as much as 20 percent of the population - - struggle with allergies," Weatherbug reports.

In California, allergy season will peak in early April. As the days become longer, tree pollen begins to cover everything in a fine yellow haze, but that will wind down by the latter half of April, into May.

Still, if you suffer from pollen allergies, this is prime weather for sneezing, irritated eyes and itchy skin.

Elsewhere in the country, where frost sticks around a little longer, allergy season will hit later in the month.

“From the Gulf Coast through Kentucky and southern Virginia, grass pollen levels will climb to very high levels in April and May thanks to warm air and ample moisture,” AccuWeather Meteorologist Alan Reppert said in the report.

In the Northeast and Midwest, the pollen will “come out quite fast and strong from April into May” after a slight delay thanks to cool temperatures, according to AccuWeather.