How does the weather affect us?
Scientist research points out that weather has a great impact on humans. Bad weather can trigger crime, suicide, cause traffic accidents or cause drivers to flee. Many people in life believe that they have feelings about weather changes. Some people can even sense the coming of dangerous weather in advance. Even children can react to low-pressure troughs and high-pressure areas.
However, weather itself does not cause physical or mental illness, it only aggravates or slows down people's existing injuries.
Medical meteorologists divide people into three types: The first type of people are weather-responsive. Under the influence of the weather, they do not feel pain or feel that they have
< p> disease, but their mood and health will fluctuate; the second type of people are weather-sensing types, and their autonomic nervous system is unstable (not determined by people's subjective wishes), they react more strongly and earlier to the stimulus of bad weather than the first type of people. They may experience headaches and trouble sleeping when the weather changes suddenly. They may also feel tired, in a bad mood and become easily agitated. They have trouble concentrating, can only drink a small amount of alcohol, and have reactions after drinking, and show slow reactions when driving. The third type of people are weather-sensitive. People of this type are usually patients who may suffer from cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, or have suffered injuries such as fractures, etc. When the weather suddenly gets colder or hotter, they may experience pain from wounds or worsening of chronic conditions. According to the survey, about 60% of people feel that they are weather sensitive. Even by very strict bioclimatic standards, one in three people is a weather-sensing type.
In severe weather conditions, car drivers' reaction times are 10% slower than usual. In addition, drivers can react incorrectly: Drivers overestimate their abilities and misjudge traffic situations. They hesitate when overtaking, or overtake at the wrong moment. Misunderstandings can also arise between drivers and pedestrians.
The impact of weather on human beings is an indisputable fact. The biggest controversy right now is how weather affects humans. Professor Wolfgang Spahn, a German medical meteorologist, believes that the impact of weather is the comprehensive impact of temperature, humidity, and air pressure on human tissues through human skin, respiratory organs, sensory organs, and nervous system. Human tissue and plant nervous system enable the human body to adapt to certain weather conditions. When the weather changes, the human body must also adjust accordingly. Since modern people are no longer accustomed to the natural environment and are far away from nature, it is difficult for many people to adapt to sudden changes in weather. Stone Age primitives were tempered by enduring all kinds of uncomfortable weather in their caves, while many modern humans live in air-conditioned rooms and feel is filtered weather. In this way, people's bodies cannot adapt to the outside weather quickly. That is to say, blood pressure will rise or fall, pulse beats too fast or too slow, sweating too much or too little, only People will be alert only when there is pain.
It is still unclear how individual weather elements affect humans.
What factors always affect human health? Statistics show that not only the so-called mundane weather effects such as rain, snow, fog, and skating that can lead to an increase in traffic accidents, but also biological weather conditions can greatly affect people's physical and mental health. For example, in areas controlled by high pressure, people can sleep well at night. On the contrary, when the high pressure moves away,
or when low pressure moves in and a warm air mass comes, people's sleep is often disturbed. For another example, when a cold air mass comes, the condition of patients with hypotension will be relieved, while patients with rheumatism
will feel unbearable pain.
Source: Weather Online