If the pollen seems worse than last year, maybe it’s because you’ve been primed. Warm days early in March began to bring out the pollen, said Dr. Ronald G. Beebe, a board-certified allergist and immunologist at The Longstreet Clinic in Gainesville. The cold, rainy weather in mid- to late March tamped the pollen back down, but the immune systems of most allergy sufferers had been exposed.