I know- talking about weather isn't really most interesting thing to talk about, but sometimes it just gets to me. I can survive hail storms, constant heat, humidity, but once snow begins to melt it's like EVERYTHING starts to irritate me.
There's been a lot said about effect of weather on our behaviour. As with measuring animal intelegency you can always interpret data in many ways. The effect of weather on physical and psychological condition of people has been quite well documented to the point that weather forecasts contain bio-forecasts. It's not well understood how and why this happens, but we know it does. As sunny weather and high pressure tend to have good effect on human beings, the change of pressure and gray skies affects us in more negative ways. There are always extremes- in our part of the world it's foehn winds bringing sudden hike in temperature, and more unpleasant effects on human beings- depression and higher suicide rates in days this wind is blowing. Foehn winds are by now means only weather-behaviour-affected phenomena- there are Chinook winds in North America, and many more.
The weather itself is not the major cause of our mood, but it can merely amplify the mood. Which basicaly means- if you tend to be depressive- moving far North or far South with long nights during winter won't do any good... Nor moving somewhere where it rains a lot. On the other hand- it wouldn't be interesting if we'd all live on the Equator in a hut on a sunny beach, would it? ;-)
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