Tuesday 13 October: the pollen level in Liverpool is low (CAMS model forecast). The most common pollen in the air is grass: 0 grains/m³ as a daily mean. The UK pollen season is essentially over; the next one starts with hazel and alder in January to March. Wednesday: low. Thursday: low. Friday: low.
Hay fever in Liverpool
Liverpool lies on the Mersey estuary with the Irish Sea to the west, so on many days the wind comes off the sea with little pollen in it. When the wind turns south-easterly it crosses the dairy pasture of the Cheshire plain, and from June into July that can lift grass pollen sharply. Tree pollen, mostly birch, peaks from mid-April into May, from the city's parks and the woods of the Wirral and West Lancashire.
Air quality in Liverpool
CAMS forecasts a daily mean of 2.9 µg/m³ of PM2.5 today, below the WHO 24-hour guideline of 15 µg/m³. Air pollution can make hay fever and asthma symptoms worse. Official forecast: Defra UK-AIR.
When plants release pollen
Pollen calendar and where the data comes from
A typical UK year: hazel and alder from January to March, birch from late March to mid-May (the main tree allergen, about one in four hay fever sufferers react to it), grass from mid-May to July, usually in two peaks (early to mid-June and early July), and weeds such as nettle, dock and mugwort from June to September. Scotland runs about two weeks behind the south of England. CAMS does not model hazel, nettle or plane tree.
CAMS (a European ensemble of models, median) computes every hour how much alder, birch, grass, mugwort, ragweed and olive pollen is in the air over Europe, on a grid of about 10 km, four days ahead. On the map, particles start where the model puts pollen in the air today and drift on the ECMWF wind. UK pollen calendar
Official sources
- Met Office: pollen forecast
- NHS: hay fever
- Defra UK-AIR: air pollution forecast
- Copernicus CAMS: air quality and pollen forecast charts
