Denver is about to have its driest March ever in recorded history. No snow, no rain, no humidity. Seriously, we had trace snow on three days of the first five of the month. The rest of March been like 5% humidity.
It’s so dry that I can’t even blow the dust out of my nose without ripping open an artery. This sucks.
If this is a harbringer of the summer, I’ll need to get a douche for my nasal cavities. This is horrible.
It was 25 in Toronto a couple of days ago. 25 Celsius, in March.
ETA- I grew up in Calgary so I know your literal and figurative pain.
Geez, I know what you mean. For me, it’s the bounce - changing humidity. I’ve had on-and-off nosebleeds all winter.
I’m sure it does, but in the southeast we are having record pollen counts. 9,400. That’s off the damn scale.
achoo!
Neti that bad boy.
That is, unless you can’t lower your nose.
(You’ll swallow if you try.)
The most fun about alergies and nosebleeds is suddenly dripping blood all over while talking to the boss. “yes, bosslady, I’ve got things scheduled and all of the computer…errp, do you have a tissue? no, I don’t want you to follow me into the restroom, no, please don’t hold paper towels to my face, I know what to do and HOLY COW, DO NOT BRING A CHAIR INTO THE RESTROOM SO YOU CAN SIT AND WATCH ME BLEED!!!”
Pants, gasps and runs off to get more tissue.
It’s supposed to be five syllables, then seven, then five. You got it totally wrong on the second and third lines.
My nose has bled everyday since I moved to Denver. It’s just a little. I thought everyone’s did all the time. I did notice a good chunk of snot-blood after my shower the other morning; now I have an explanation.
I wasn’t writing a haiku here. I was just writing in a way I could see what I wrote in my stuck non-rotating screen.
Seriously–Neti.
Our bedroom humidifier has been running overtime for the last month, otherwise we’ll both wake up in the middle of the night with our throats sealed shut from dessication. Luckily, no nosebleeds yet, but my allergies have kicked in earlier than ever. Yay.
Still wouldn’t live anywhere else, though 
Don’t blame Mother Nature for the effects of climate change.
Come on now. I’m not denying climate change, but it shouldn’t be invoked for every goddamn weather condition. It doesn’t rain in Vegas either, but we don’t need to bring up global warming to explain why the air in the desert is dry. Denver has the third lowest humidity of the cities in the US. It’s always been an arid region with or without climate change.
I don’t mistake weather for climate change. Just because it’s warm and dry now doesn’t mean we didn’t get two feet of snow in October. I didn’t blame that on a lack of climate change.
Denver is usually quite low humidity. This month has been lower than usual.
You didn’t say, “lower than usual.” You said, “Denver is about to have its driest March ever in recorded history.”
There’s a lot of that going around right now. We’ve had a record-breaking warm, dry March almost nationwide - places in the U.S. have had previous temperature records broken by over 20 degrees. The average temperature for the entire winter in D.C. was 45.6°, which is normally the average temperature for March 15-16.
But if you say that’s weather and not climate change, then who am I to blow against the wind?
Have you seen a doctor? A few years ago I was having persistent nosebleeds (I don’t remember if it was dry air related, but I often had them while taking a shower). My doctor sent me to an ear, nose, throat guy who cauterized my nose. It wasn’t too bad pain-wise. They use a chemical. Since then, no problems.
I wonder if NaSal might help.
Agreed. speaking as a man who used to have plenty of nose bleeds and hasn’t had one for years.
It actually took 3 tries before it finally stuck. Each time stopped the nose bleeds for about a year before they started again but definitely worth it.
I used to have them a lot as a kid. They’re exceedingly rare in the past few decades, and can always be tied to extremely dry air patterns here in Denver. I didn’t have them in Ottawa, Dayton, or St. Louis, or here (since I returned in October) until this month. I’ll deal, but thanks for the advice. (Not sarcastic.)
RTFirefly, if this turns out to be a pattern, maybe it’ll have something to do with climate change. If say, five or six out of the next nine or ten March’s have historically low humidity (and no rain and no snow), then OK. But this is one March out of all the March’s I’ve been here, and for now I’m just going to assume that it is extreme weather.
Stop snorting so much coke and it won’t be a problem.
Seriously though, I hear you, I get nosebleeds too. It’s not so bad now, but I also used to get them all the time as a kid.