Monday we had 80 degree temperatures and apparently the cedar trees liked it because on Tuesday we had 40 and 50 mph gusts and the pollen was coming off the cedars like I have never seen in 10 years being out here in Oklahoma. At first I thought a wild fire was coming from the south but with no black smoke or plumes it could not be. Then after watching for a little bit I could see swirls of pollen being blown off the tops of the cedar.
Here is a short video of the smoke cedars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2cSWdq1n4c
for a minute , thought you were working on a wood project.
Erc if you lightly hit it up with a torch the growth rings Pops out, just enough but dosnt burn the wood.
I hope that stuff is headed south and not east, I have never seen anything like that either,
Thanks for the video !
I've seen pollen from white pine blow like that a few times.
Sprucebunny, I've seen white pines do that too, but didn't know cedar would do it. :P
Interesting!!
When I have cut cedars down this time of year pollen comes off when they hit the ground and a dust cloud comes off. I have even shaken some limbs with my hand and have had pollen disperse but this was like a fog coming in from the sea.
That much pollen in the air just means more job security for me. :D
OKMULCH, more the reason to build a reaally high wall on the Red, we got enough of our own down here, allergies are killing me already. arg-smiley arg-smiley
Quote from: Texas Ranger on March 13, 2014, 11:43:29 PM
OKMULCH, more the reason to build a reaally high wall on the Red, we got enough of our own down here, allergies are killing me already. arg-smiley arg-smiley
We'll lucky for you the wind was out of the south that morning. :D
That was neat to watch, and what is your shoe size. ;D
Our Pines will be doing that very soon. Everything and I mean everything will be yellow. :-\
That's a cool video :)
Magicman, your pines and our pines too! Right about Easter. Everything will be yellow for a couple weeks at least.... and if the wind blows, it looks like a yellow dust storm out of one of those Great Depression documentaries. LOL :D
I thought you were joking with us on the cedar pollen. Because yesterday I had been working in the woods and driving back I saw similar plumes of smoke from woods afire. Three separate plumes over about thirty miles, I know it created a very high smoke cloud over the S/E Ozarks; this was in the Mark Twain Forest area, figured they were doing 'controlled burning', such a nice quiet day.
But, today is another matter, high wind warnings..fire danger near extreme.
We have pollen storms from the red pines in front of the house some years. Conditions have to right when they're in bloom for it to happen.
Yep , seen the the pines around here do the same thing . The whole side of the mountian will kick up pollen all at once like a yellow smoke cloud .
Whoa, that's a lot of coniferous genetic material!
Our SYP pollen pods are hanging, so our yellow season is close at hand. :-\