Meteopathy

[Vulpix]

Does the weather strongly affect your mood or even your health?

Rainy gloomy weather drags me down ...

meteopathy or ‘weather sense’, is a word only recently introduced into English (from the French méteopathique, Italian meteopatico, the nearest equivalent of which, in common parlance, is the expression ‘under the weather’).

Most people who live in urban societies claim to be unaffected by the weather. But for a minority, the approach of bad weather may be accompanied by unpleasant symptoms (headaches, limb pains, nausea, etc., depending on the individual), and of vaguer feelings better described as changes of mood (lethargy, uneasiness, irritability, depression). Conversely, when meteorological conditions improve, these individuals experience a sense of well-being and the adverse symptoms disappear.

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[Rainraven]

Rainy and gloomy weather gets me down but I think that's just mostly not being able to go outside.

Wind is the one that really drives me crazy. I get sort of snappy and irritable. I'll often act a bit strange and find myself generally more flustered and unable to concentrate.

[Treffie]

Being born into a wet, windy and very rarely sunny climate, I enjoy seeing the rain coming down. In fact, it's raining heavily here at the moment and it's very dark due to thick cloud coverage. However, if the rainfall continues for more than 3 or 4 days I start to get depressed.

What really gets me down is a prolonged spell of very hot, muggy weather. With this weather I feel really uncomfortable and can't sleep at night.

The kind of weather that makes me feel good though is cold, dry and sunny weather in the winter. During the summer, I feel uplifted when it's stormy with thunder and lightning.

[Hilding]

Well sometimes I get a headache when there's a thunderstorm coming in. Rally cold days (I'm from northern Sweden so -30C in the wintertime is not that unusual) my hair gets very loaded with static electricity and sometimes feel an ache in one of my legs.

[Loki]

Since I was young, I was at my happiest when there was a thunderstorm raging outside. In this I take after my father. I would open the window and breathe in the fresh, moist air with gratitude ... or go outside and stand underneath the roof shelter of the stoep. Sometimes I would be so overwhelmed with joy, that I would take an umbrella and walk out in the heavy rain.

These days I still appreciate rainy weather, and it makes me feel happy. It gives me a feeling of shelteredness. Also, the fact so many other people feel miserable when it rains, brings a smile of schadenfreude to my face. For some moments, I am equal again with those who are more fortunate than me in other areas of life.

At times I do enjoy a bright, sunny day. More so here in England, than I did in South Africa.

[Tabiti]

Thunderstorms and heavy rains in summer or late spring give me energy, unlike the gloomy, wet days that drain my last powers. Numerous hot sunny days in summer just kill me, long cold, foggy winternights without much snowing usually have the same effect.
As a whole I prefer dynamic weather, sunny autumn and early spring days.

[Skandi]

The weather, hmm. I hate fog, it depresses me, you can't see anything and if you try to walk in it you get soaked, I also don't like drizzle for the same reasons. "hot" days (remember I live in Scotland where 16 is the highest it gets! nah by hot I mean 25) are fine, so long as I can find some shade, but I tend to be very lethargic.

I love heavy rain, especially if there is no wind, cold torrential rain sends me out on long walks with an umbrella or my waterproofs, warm rain, like July thunderstorms sends me running for shorts and tea shirts.

In the winter I like nothing more than to listen to a storm blowing rain into the windows. It makes me feel all warm and cosy.

Well reading peoples replys there is a reason why we didn't have this term in English. The English speakers are not such pansies!!

[Atlas]

Being born and having lived in a region mostly cloudy all my life, I can say I am done with this kind of météo. I really want to live somewhere else, maybe south of France or even abroad.

However I know when I'll be in a sunny place I won't be appreciating the sunny days as much as I do here.

For example, my last vacation were on the French riviera, spent one month there in september and haven't even seen a cloud.

[Absinthe]

Thunderstorms and heavy rains in summer or late spring give me energy, unlike the gloomy, wet days that drain my last powers. Numerous hot sunny days in summer just kill me, long cold, foggy winternights without much snowing usually have the same effect.
As a whole I prefer dynamic weather, sunny autumn and early spring days.

Oook... we seem to have so much in common

I love dark, stormy weather. I love snow and I love dynamic climate in general.

What I dislike is really hot days, humidity, and the weather we've been having here lately: hot, cloudy, gloomy, extremely humid but not raining.
I'd love some heavy rain right now, I'd gladly get outside and get wet

P.S. my favorite and most uplifting weather/scenery combination so far has been the Swedish one during February
You know, where everything is covered in snow, when it's really cold and dry and you get to breathe that refreshing northern air When it's dark all the time.. My swedish friends think I am crazy and one said "even I have a hard time feeling patriotic on February"

[Tabiti]

What I dislike is really hot days, humidity, and the weather we've been having here lately: hot, cloudy, gloomy, extremely humid but not raining.
I'd love some heavy rain right now, I'd gladly get outside and get wet

The weather here has been similar for the past few days - gloomy, no raining, wet and around 15C, so I feel like not doing anything, just sleeping.
Also like windy weather. Wind seems to have special purification and refreshing powers, as long it is not full of dust and sand.