Past Reports

  Cape Town High grass counts were seen. Tree levels dropped significantly and only cypress, pine and Rhus were detected. Just one weed was detected and this was Stoebe or...

Cape Town Grasses were high and exceeded the significant threshold every day. Tree levels are still high as cypress (Cupressus spp), olive (Olea Europaea subspp Africana), pine, yellowwood (Podocarpus spp),...

Cape Town Grasses are moderate but increasing. Tree levels are waning but acacia, cypress, gum, olive, pine, yellowwood, mulberry and oak pollen was detected in the atmosphere. Low weed levels...

Cape Town The spore trap has been repaired and findings will be available from next week. Values given are based on archived data from the last decade. Trees present in...

Cape Town Historical averages are given for Cape Town from the last 10 years as the spore trap is still being repaired. The trees found during this week are usually:...

Cape Town Current pollen levels are unavailable. Typical flowering tree types for this period are oak, olive, plane, pine, yellowwood, poplar, Rhus/Searsia, chestnut and poplar. Weeds found at this time...

Cape Town The spore trap is not yet repaired so 10-year averages are given. For this sampling period grass levels are typically low, tree pollen is high as cypress, olive,...

Cape Town The spore trap motor has suffered storm damage. 10-year averages are given and flowering trees in the second week of September include: oak, white stinkwood, pine, yellowwood, mulberry,...

Cape Town High tree levels were detected for cypress despite heavy rain. Other flowering trees were: pine, plane, oak and white mulberry. Grasses were low. Low weed levels included Erica...

Cape Town Grasses were low but are slowly increasing. Tree pollen levels surged on dry, sunny days as cypress, pine and plane continued their pollen release cycle. Other tree types...

Cape Town Extremely cold weather with heavy rainfall and snow on high-lying ground was experienced in Cape Town for much of this sampling period. Despite the inclement weather cypress, oak,...

Cape Town Grasses were unchanged at low levels. The tree levels surged as on just one sunny day, 8 August, significant tree pollen levels were recorded for cypress. Other flowering...

Cape Town No grass pollen was detected during this initially cold, dry period even though temperatures increased at the end of the sampling week. Tree pollen levels were generally low,...

Cape Town Low levels of grass, tree and weed pollen were detected during this sampling week but the tree pollen is showing a slight increase especially for cypress and olive....

Cape Town Grass levels were very low during this week of storms and heavy rain. Despite the weather tree pollen increased as cypress began its pollen release season. Small amounts...

Cape Town The spore trap failed and so the findings for this week are based on the findings of the previous week and 10 years’ archived data. Tree pollen detected...

Cape Town Very low levels of grasses, trees, which included cypress and Searsia (Rhus) and weeds (only Stoebe) were detected in this week of low temperatures and gale force north...

Cape Town Grass and tree levels were very low. Tree types detected included gum and cypress.  Winter flowering cypress trees are beginning their pollen release cycle. Weed levels were low,...

Cape Town Heavy rain and low temperatures reduced the fungal and pollen levels. Snow lay thickly on some Cape mountains. The few tree pollen types detected were cypress, gum and...

Cape Town The grass pollen level was low. In the tree categor,  low levels of cypress, gum, pine and Casuarina were detected. Weeds consisting of the daisy family and nettles...

Cape Town Grasses were very low during this sampling period. Low levels of tree pollen included gum, olive and willow. Only the daisy family and Stoebe represented weed pollen in...

Cape Town Grass levels were low, tree (gum and pine) were very low and the low weed levels contained only goosefoot. All moulds were low during the sampling period but...

Cape Town Grass levels were very low. Tree pollen, including cypress and gum was also low. Low weed levels included Stoebe, an indigenous shrub, goosefoot and Erica. Moulds were very...