I really hate pollen...

I noticed a blanket of pollen on my truck yesterday here in NorCal. Disgusting. Here is it the end of February and the pollen is already showing up.
 
02xtreme07SS said:
I noticed a blanket of pollen on my truck yesterday here in NorCal. Disgusting. Here is it the end of February and the pollen is already showing up.
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Pollen seems to not last very long here in Florida. I've actually noticed light dust and pollen settling on my car in the fall and sometimes winter months. It is what it is, though.

I gave my car a heavy rinse, the water ran off light green, and then sprayed Griot's Speed Shine (great detail spray, smells drinkable, lol) a panel at a time and dried the car with a damp microfiber drying towel. I do this occasionally when my car isn't but a day old with light dust after the main wash. I used to use just the detail spray, but as careful as I could possibly be, I was creating more straight line scratches back when I had my Mazda3. So I stopped quick detailing with only detail spray. Heavily rinsing knocks pretty much all the light dust and pollen settled, given the paint is waxed or sealed, and then the detail spray helps to provide lubrication when drying with a damp MF towel. I learned this method by watching Larry Kosilla at Drive Clean/AMMONYC. Awesome guy.
 
dooyaunastan said:
Middle TN winters:
high 20 degrees for 3 days
warms up to 40 then rains for 2 days
drops back down to high 20s for a day or two
warms up to 50's/60's for another day or two
drops down again to 40's and rains
drops back down to 20's

wash, rinse, repeat

Anywhere 5 minutes outside of Nashville is pollen madness, one of the lushest cities I've seen and of course there's pine everywhere as well.
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WOW, that sounds like the way it's been here this winter, (just add 10 degrees).

Weatherman was saying today we've had over 15 inches of rain this year ALREADY! That'll translate to a crapload of pollen in March. :eek:
Last March, around the 3rd week, we hit almost 8200 pollen count, up like 1700 points from 2011. (And we had a wet spring last year, but a much colder winter.) I keep the G under a cover in the garage and it STILL gets covered. :o

So yeah, I'd probably swap pollen about now from all the freakin' rain! (It's raining now even, with possible flurries later in the week.) :rolleyes:
 
cardaddy said:
WOW, that sounds like the way it's been here this winter, (just add 10 degrees).

Weatherman was saying today we've had over 15 inches of rain this year ALREADY! That'll translate to a crapload of pollen in March. :eek:
Last March, around the 3rd week, we hit almost 8200 pollen count, up like 1700 points from 2011. (And we had a wet spring last year, but a much colder winter.) I keep the G under a cover in the garage and it STILL gets covered. :o

So yeah, I'd probably swap pollen about now from all the freakin' rain! (It's raining now even, with possible flurries later in the week.) :rolleyes:
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We've had 12 inches between December '12 and January '13, and in a few weeks it's going to warm up, rain even more, and pollen will be in full effect. But, it will be warm and I've so much products to try in the sun that I just can't in this weather!
 
dooyaunastan said:
We've had 12 inches between December '12 and January '13, and in a few weeks it's going to warm up, rain even more, and pollen will be in full effect. But, it will be warm and I've so much products to try in the sun that I just can't in this weather!
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And I don't know if I really *want* it to get warm. :rolleyes: Seems about the time we get used to decent power bills, along comes July (and the $350+ AC bills). :eek:

OTOH I'm really happy we don't get freaking "snow by the foot", which seems to be the norm literally ANYWHERE above the Mason-Dixon line this year! WOW!!!
 
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