Chief Meteorologist Jon Porter shows you how you can manage your seasonal allergies with the help of the AccuWeather app, which allows you to monitor risks that can trigger asthma and sinus pressure.
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00:00People have been talking about the challenges with pollen and seasonal
00:04allergies across the southern part of the United States over the last couple of
00:08weeks as the trees blossom here in the spring and of course that'll be working
00:11northward over the coming weeks and we have many tools to help people
00:15understand the impact of pollen and the risk for seasonal allergies in the free
00:20AccuWeather app. Let's take a look at that. We'll go down today to Charlotte,
00:23North Carolina but remember you could tap on the top and automatically get your
00:27latest local forecast or put in any city or location around the world to get
00:32your latest local forecast with proven superior accuracy and over on the right
00:36hand side of the screen on the tablet version or scroll down a bit on the
00:39phone version we'll go all the way past air quality and maps down to health and
00:43activities and you see we have many different types of forecasts that are
00:47available asthma, grass pollen, ragweed pollen and you can actually customize
00:52those to the things that are most interesting to you by tapping on this
00:55little settings control here and when you do that it brings up a screen that
00:59allows you to select different types of allergies and health indexes. There are
01:02many different types of weather impacts to various health concerns,
01:06arthritis, asthma, even the risk of getting a common cold or the flu. You could
01:11just tap on one of those areas, sinus pressure for example in this case and
01:14that will show up on your personalized display. Then on the AccuWeather Premium Plus
01:19app you could tap on this and get a seven-day forecast with descriptions of the
01:25impacts on the right. So we'll go up on the top here select tree pollen look at
01:29this in Charlotte going from moderate to high later this weekend and you see
01:34the descriptions that many allergy sufferers will experience symptoms. So
01:37again the number but also telling you the context and the impact of what's
01:41going to occur. AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source of
01:44weather forecasts and warnings download the free AccuWeather app today.