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Pollen count Liverpool today: hay fever forecast for 4 days

Map of today's pollen in the air, carried by the wind (CAMS model)
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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.

Alder
low · 0
low · 0
low · 0
low · 0
Birch
low · 0
low · 0
low · 0
low · 0
Grass
low · 0
low · 0
low · 0
low · 0
Mugwort
low · 0
low · 0
low · 0
low · 0
PM2.5
2.9 µg/m³
3.7 µg/m³
3.1 µg/m³
2.9 µg/m³
Max temp
17.3°C
16.9°C
17.1°C
Rain
1.1 mm
0 mm
1.3 mm
Bar height is the level (low, moderate, high, very high); the number is grains/m³. Tap a day to see its wind on the map.

CAMS model forecast from 13 October at 01:00 BST, weather from the ECMWF model run of 13 October at 07:00 BST. Model values are shown unchanged; this is not a measurement or an official forecast.

Level scale (daily mean concentration, grains/m³; US National Allergy Bureau scale, AAAAI, as the UK has no open national scale): trees moderate from 15, high from 90, very high from 1500; grass from 5, 20 and 200; weeds (mugwort) from 10, 50 and 500. People with hay fever can have symptoms at low levels too.

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

Other UK cities

About this data: the pollen and PM2.5 levels on this page are the forecast of the CAMS European air quality model (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), shown exactly as computed; weather and wind come from the ECMWF model. They are not pollen trap counts and not the Met Office pollen forecast. Do not make medical decisions from them; use the official sources listed below.