Two pieces of good news for a million Finns! – 2024-03-08 00:17:58

Pollen bulletins and forecasts made by the University of Turku and open to all on the norkko.fi website will still continue.

The university has found money to make pollen forecasts for the year 2024. The situation regarding funding for next year and the future is still open.

The Norkko.fi website is updated three times a week, i.e. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

So far, the amount of pollen has been low, although the most sensitive people have already been able to detect with their own senses that the hazel bush has started to bloom in the vicinity of Finland.

The cold weather keeps the flowering of the hazel bush in check, but as soon as the weather warms up, the hazel bush starts spreading pollen in the southwestern parts of the country and Uusimaa.

Many are already waiting for this sight after a long and snowy winter. Pete Anikari

The calculation of the nooks

In the spring of 2023, the birch will bloom exceptionally large.

This spring’s observations suggest that this spring will be different for birch allergy sufferers. Birch tends to flower so that the number of blooms varies from year to year.

Birch flowering is predicted by counting the number of minks. Now, there doesn’t seem to be much mink in the birch trees.

– The beginning of spring is probably easier for birch allergy sufferers than last spring, thinks the project researcher Maria Louna-Korteniemi from the University of Turku.