"Pollen with an attitude" and the weather

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Harry Jackson, Jr, on February 27, 2017, we learned that the freakishly mild winter weather we have experiences is creating non-stop allergies in St. Louis:

"Not only will pollen allergies be around longer this year, research has found some tree pollen that is getting better at making people miserable.

Local allergists say the warm winter appears to be creating a prolonged tree allergy season. People with symptoms have been showing up in doctors’ offices since mid-January, or even sooner. In many cases, because it’s winter, people thought they had colds but were suffering early symptoms caused by breathing tree pollen.

Those who suffer from pollen allergies know this means a longer season of misery, medicine, itching, coughing, sneezing and congestion."

Read the whole thing here.