Pollen count declining in capital

Pollen count dropped to 548 per cubic metre during the last 24 hours, according to official

ISLAMABAD:

Pollen count in Islamabad has dropped to 548 per cubic meter during the last 24 hours which shows that pollen allergy was going to die down in the capital after the number of pollen grains number plummeted during the season.

According to the Meteorological Department of Pakistan, the pollen count in Islamabad crossed 48,546 particles per cubic in March of the current year which was the highest pollen count in the history of Islamabad.

"48,080 per cubic meters of pollen count has been recorded in 2005 which is the highest previous record prior to 2022, whereas, 47, 695 per cubic meters of pollen has been recorded in the previous year", as per the official data available on the website of meteorological department.

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Zaheer Ahmad the spokesman of the meteorological department said that the department examined the situation of the pollen count in Islamabad cautiously as the department installed pollen monitoring devices in H-8, E-8, F-10 and G-6 sectors of the capital.

 The spokesman said that eight plants species of Paper Mulberry, acacia, Eucalyptus, Pines, Grasses, Cannabis, Dandelion and Alternaria caused pollen in Islamabad out of which Paper Mulberry shared 97 percent of total pollen and its concentration gained extreme limits of about 40, 000 per cubic meter of air at the apex of full blossom.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 15^th, 2022.