Pollen season has started in the US
The pollen season means good business for car wash owners. In many parts of Europe it still feels very much like winter but in parts of the United States car wash owners are already reporting a bigger influx of dusted cars.
One of those people is Joe Landfried, manager of the local Tidal Wave Auto Spa in Horry County. According to an interview he gave to ABC 15 News, some customers are coming back six or seven times a week to get their car washed.
“I had a guy the other day that after he washed, he’d been over there for about an hour vacuuming, and he comes up to me and goes, ‘I need to go back through again.’ I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘There’s still pollen on my car.’ That pollen had gotten back there within that hour,” he said.
Very high
In some states, almost every surface is covered in yellow dust this week. According to local weather stations, tree pollen in some areas is very high right now.
It means good business for car wash owners, Landfried confirms. “Our volume increases exponentially. Sometimes double the volume that we normally do because of pollen season.”
El Niño
Experts have an explanation for the amount of pollen in the air right now. This has to do with El Niño, when you typically have a warmer and wetter winter than normal. This means trees really bloom and produce a tremendous amount of pollen. This explains the yellow dust on many cars.
Though many carwash owners will probably see it as gold dust.
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