Are you wondering why you’ve started to have allergy symptoms – itchy eyes, sneezing – so early this year?
Allergy seasons are now “longer and more intense”, says Dr Katelyn Jetelina, adjunct professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Warmer, shorter winters mean shorter periods of freezing temperatures. This means the growing season for plants is lengthened, and they release pollen earlier in the spring and later into the fall, Jetelina explains.
