The effects of extreme temperatures on human health have been well described. However, the adverse health effects of warm weather that occurs outside the summer period have had little attention. We used daily anomalous AMI morbidity and daily anomalous temperature to determine the impact of "unseasonable" temperature on human health. The "unseasonably" warm weather was attributed to a slow movi...

BACKGROUND physical activity (PA) is an important factor to promote healthy ageing. However, older adults are not physically active enough. Socio-ecological models suggest that weather conditions are determinants of PA and may bias relations between other environmental factors and PA. This may especially be the case for the most vulnerable and inactive older persons. Understanding the role of w...

OBJECTIVES The authors examined the relationship of suicide in the elderly (65 years and older) to season and weather and compared it to that in the younger population (10-64 years). METHODS Information on suicides and on weather was obtained for British Columbia for the period 1981 to 1991. The association of suicide with season and weather was assessed using Poisson regression. RESULTS Wh...

During the past ten years, many sets of subjective probability forecasts have been formulated on an operational or experimental basis by weather forecasters. In this paper we examine some forecasts prepared recently by National Weather Service forecasters. Samples of precipitation probability forecasts represent an operational program, while samples of probability foreclISts of temperature repr...

PURPOSE To study the association between weather-related measures and objectively measured trail use across 3 seasons. BACKGROUND Weather has been reported as a barrier to outdoor physical activity (PA), but previous studies have explained only a small amount of the variance in PA using weather-related measures. METHODS The dependent variable of this study was trail use measured as mean hou...

In a one month prospective study of 62 rheumatic patients--16 with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 24 with osteoarthritis (OA), 11 with inflammatory arthritis, 11 with fibromyalgia joint pain--swelling and everyday activity was compared with changes in daily weather conditions. In most patients weather changes increased arthritic symptoms. Women were more sensitive to weather than men (62% v 37%). P...

In a developing country, like India where agriculture is the base for national economy, the weather conditions including Minimum Temperature, Maximum Temperature and Pressure play a leading role. Therefore having accurate weather forecasting information may allow farmers to make their better decisions on managing their farms. Similar statement can be made for industries where accurate weather c...

OBJECTIVES To ascertain whether the weather affects the attendance rate of children with injuries at a paediatric accident and emergency department. METHODS The maximum daily temperature and weather conditions (rain/cloud/sun) were noted over a three month period in spring/summer 2002, together with the number of children attending with new injuries or trauma. RESULTS There was a direct ass...

In Europe, rotavirus gastroenteritis peaks in late winter or early spring suggesting a role for weather factors in transmission of the virus. In this study, multivariate regression models adapted for time-series data were used to investigate effects of temperature, humidity and rainfall on reported rotavirus infections and the infection-rate parameter, a derived measure of infection transmissio...