In Irkutsk, dry and sunny weather is expected in the coming days, so poplar fluff will soon fly in a dense wall and make life especially hard for allergy sufferers. Experts say this is a natural process of poplar fruiting, usually lasting until early July, and explain why the city would be worse without these trees.
As meteorologists predict, the weather in the near future will be sunny, with no rain. This means that in just a couple of days the fluff will be flying in a dense wall already.The trees have put on white scarves. Allergy sufferers will be the first to suffer. By the way, last summer in June there was no poplar fluff. Because during the flowering period, frosts occurred in Irkutsk. May 2015 was warm, so the trees began to bear fruit on time. In the opinion of some residents: poplars should be gotten rid of. But specialists say — it would be worse without them, because one tree can trap thirty kilograms of dust in a year. And it produces many times more oxygen than.
— Poplar fluff, or in other words the fruiting of poplars, occurs in our region at the end of the second — beginning of the third ten-day period of June, that is, what we are observing now. The fluff will fly until dry sunny weather lasts. And by the beginning of July the fluff will stop flying, that is, the poplars will finish fruiting, — says Andrey Lishtva, head of the Department of Botany at Irkutsk State University.