Pollen Relief Is on the Way

The pollen count has fallen to 4,379 today, the second consecutive day of after back-to-back all-time records started the workweek.

That's the good word from the in Marietta, which says birch, mulberry, oak and pine trees are Thursday's primary culprits.

The number of pollen particles in a cubic meter (1,000 liters) of air is still almost triple the "extremely high" level for tree pollen, but it's less than half . Wednesday's total was 5,174.

The big news for allergy sufferers, however, is the weather forecast for Friday: rain and lots of it.

There's a 30 percent chance of rain today, the National Weather Service says, but that rises to 80 percent Friday, when showers and thunderstorms could bring more than half an inch of rain and wash away the pollen in rivers of yellow.