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Ah choo! Warmer weather triggers an early allergy season

Doctors recommend starting your allergy medication as soon as you start feeling the effects from the allergies.

With unseasonably warm temperatures this February, blooming flowers are starting allergy season early.

Doctors recommend starting your allergy medication as soon as you start feeling the effects from the allergies.

They also recommend staying in air conditioned areas to stay away from pollen. Doing so will help give you a milder allergy season.

"It probably predicts a long allergy season so people need to pay attention to their allergies and use their medications," Dr. Bob Overholt said.

According to Overholt, while the early season is unusual, there have been several years in the past where warmer weather has caused allergies to come early.

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