Allergy sufferer in a park (Image: Getty) Fifteen million Britons face weeks of tear-streaming hay fever, as a the UK's leading pollen scientist tells the Daily Express how June could see persistent 'very high' grass pollen level red alerts. And Dr Beverley Adams-Groom of the University of Worcester - who advises the Met Office on pollen levels - warns that any scorching days this month could make hay fever even worse. This weekend will see a pollen bomb of 'high' levels in the Midlands and south, triggered by the end of our wettest spring since 1986 and warm temperatures forecasted to hit 18C (64.
4F) in the south But Dr Adams-Groom has stressed that we are just at the start of weeks of 'high' levels (measured at 50 pollen grains per cubic meter of air) that could soar to 'very high' (150 pollen grains per cubic metre). She told the Daily Express: "We are forecasting for 'very high' levels for much of the rest of June. The risk is increasing because most grasses are coming into flower.
"We have at least three weeks ahead when we expect to see high and very high counts across much of the country with temperatures of around 18-19C predicted. "We have passed the main tree pollen season which runs from January to May but dry weather for the next few weeks will help all the grasses with pollen dispersal as we reach the peak of that season." Grass pollen dispersal starts in April and builds, worsening if we have persistent warm, dry weather, and affects 95 per cent of hay fever suf.
