It’s not really cedar (it’s juniper) and it’s not really fever (but it sure feels awful), and its pollen presence is high as a kite this weekend, according to the pollen-counting meteorologists at KVUE-TV in Austin, the only ones who do their own pollen counts:
"Sunny skies and warmer weather has led to an explosion of Cedar pollen today. More than 1200 grains were found under the microscope. Molds remained at medium levels. This allergy forecast was updated on Friday, January 5th. Samples are reported in grains per cubic meter of air."
Allergies are one of the seldom-mentioned drawbacks to life in Central Texas, and cedar fever is the worst of the lot.
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