Pine pollen?

**bikemike** · 23rd August 2009, 20:40

Coming down Gebbies Pass towards Govenors Bay today around 10:30 I saw what for all the world looked like green smoke floating against Church Bay and over Lyttleton Harbour. I looked a good few times coming around the bay and it persisted.

Once home I jumped in the car and the bonnet was green.

Is this pine pollen? Phenomenal. Anyone with 'hay' fever around here? was today a bad day? Isn't it a bit early?

**Mom** · 23rd August 2009, 20:42

Might be early down there, but up here it has been around for a month or more. I hate the stuff! Everything is covered in a fine film of yellow snore invoking shit. I snore like a mad demon snorer as a result! Hate the stuff.

**1wheel riot** · 23rd August 2009, 20:44

na its about the right time for it.

**wickle** · 23rd August 2009, 20:44

Originally Posted by Mom

Might be early down there, but up here it has been around for a month or more. I hate the stuff! Everything is covered in a fine film of yellow snore invoking shit. I snore like a mad demon snorer as a result! Hate the stuff.

same here, after rain gutters look like someone has dumped aload of sulpher

**rickstv** · 23rd August 2009, 20:58

Looks a lot worse than it is as far as I'm concerned. I suffer from hay fever from mid October till 1st week in the new year and have never been affected by pine pollen (or wattle pollen which looks similar)
Rick.

**Brett** · 23rd August 2009, 21:49

Yep, every week I have a nice layer or yellow on the garage floor, over my car which is parked outside and well...pretty much over everything. It is annoying, but nothing a good rain wont clean.

**Motu** · 23rd August 2009, 22:13

We've had it for several weeks too - it's just letting up now.I was pretty sure it was pine pollen,and was in some pine trees today....confirmed.

**Hitcher** · 23rd August 2009, 22:29

Regional councils perennially issue pine pollen advisories on about the same date they urge whitebaiters to protect the banks and beds of streams and rivers into which they festoon their nets.

**coffeejunkie** · 23rd August 2009, 22:39

My car bonnet is bloody covered in the shit every morning, Pine trees out the back of our place

**sunhuntin** · 23rd August 2009, 22:52

been everywhere for a while around here. i get hayfever, but mine hasnt kicked in yet. normally it hits around the same weekend as the burt munro and lasts until well into autumn. i blame the native trees as i didnt have hay fever until i came back from canada. i figure my immunity to native trees got ruined in the 6 months i was away. i just have to remember to take a pill each day and that usually fixes it pretty good. used to be on razene/zyrtec, but now its zetop/zetap [cant remember which!] which is better.

**Shadows** · 23rd August 2009, 23:56

Originally Posted by sunhuntin

i blame the native trees as i didnt have hay fever until i came back from canada. i figure my immunity to native trees got ruined in the 6 months i was away.

Probably quite the opposite. With the amount of pine trees in Canada, your immune system was probably working overtime and you just didn't know it - now you're back and the slightest whiff of the local pine trees sets it off. Just like people who become allergic to bee stings - they often don't become allergic until they've been stung once - then the second time it's life threatening. That's often the way allergies work.

**CookMySock** · 24th August 2009, 07:27

Yeah we get thick layers of the stuff coming off the forestry up this way.

There was this huge anvil thunderstorm funnel cloud brewing all afternoon, sucking up tonnes and tonnes of water vapour, and then it drew in this big green cloud of pollen, and MAAAAAAN did it have a mental after that. Hail like BIG marbles and and the rest... Awesome.

Steve

**yungatart** · 24th August 2009, 07:43

Aaaahhhh, Hawkes Bay at this time of the year is covered in that nasty yellow tree sperm! Everything is coated.
It makes my nose drip and my eyes itchy...horrible stuff! been around for weeks now.