The Human Barometer...Are YOU One?

[KPTitan]

In a few ways, I might be a human barometer....lol. When there's a low-pressure system right above where I live, I get bad ear aches. I also get a really bad cold twice every year, in almost the same months: September/October and March/April, when the warm temperatures change to cold and visa/versa.

[The Irishman]

I have been known to get irritated when there's a thunderstorm around. That's about it though.

[Captain Highwind]

No, but I can tell time without looking at a clock.

[Daxdiv]

I always seem to get bad colds when a big snowstorm is approaching. After it snow, I am automatically better.

[Kagetsu]

No, but I can tell time without looking at a clock. A regular Dr. Who huh? heh, ignore me. :p

A bit of biological physics,,, if there is such a thing. People susceptible to colds get them twice a year no matter the barometric pressure. It's the effect the air humidity change has on your nasal passages to block viruses.

Human barometry is based around a joint injury that causes pain as it expands oddly with pressure drops. A drop in pressure occurs as a weather front is moving in and happens relatively fast. the weather passes and high pressure takes longer to change.

[Harvey Two Face]

To answer your question there is such thing as Bio Physics, which if I can remember correctly is the study of forces on like cells and organisms etc. I think it's mainly studied for cell/gene manipulation and the engineering of prosthetic limbs.

[Sketch]

I get sleepy or have headaches on days that are either very gloomy and rainy or a day that's very hot and dry. I also feel less motivated at these times.

[Dr.Pepper]

I have a runny nose virtually everyday in August and September. That is as close as I get.

[DBZNarutoWarrior]

No, but I can tell time without looking at a clock.

Me too (but I usually need digital for some reason). ALSO I can speed up sending of text messages when someone puts their cell phone to my head. Don't ask how that one came to be.....:sweat:

[PRdude]

The rain tends to bum me out, and that's about it.

[Kagetsu]

I get sleepy or have headaches on days that are either very gloomy and rainy That's something thought of as "third eye". Base creatures evolved with a separate organ to sync them to sunlight. We are supposed to still have the nerve clusters between our eyes and just a little higher. It hurts when you close your eyes and put an object in front of it. The main stimuli to our brain has transfered to our eyes while closed because our skulls are too thick, but the nerve center is still said to be there.

Me too (but I usually need digital for some reason). ALSO I can speed up sending of text messages when someone puts their cell phone to my head. Don't ask how that one came to be.....:sweat: I've noticed I can "set" a mental wake time. But belive it's repetition that conditions the brain to think "wake up" because of light levels. I can't do it earlier than sunrise. You also have to consider the standard 90 min sleep cycle.

[Dudley]

My body gets a twitchy feeling during a lightning storm all the time.

[Elven Moon]

Not really, but I can get myself to wake up at certain times of the day without any kind of alarm or timer.

[tucsoncoyote]

Well I for one am not a barometer in a sense, but I can definitely feel the changes and observe the sky for signs of rough weather..(Usually I am accurate at determining the summer monsoon season on time (with about an 80% accuracy..

I also double as a GPS unit (Can't lose me anywhere in the US..Plus I have some time sense..(Sort of like Elven Moon is). But a walking Barometer? Not unless I have headaches, or I sneeze.. then More than likely I can take a wild stab at what the weather is..

But a Barometer in the true sense of the word? No.. Weather Savvy Yes, But a Barometer.. No..

:coyote:

[KPTitan]

I just thought of something....there's a guy that my dad works with that gets aches in his joints REALLY bad when there's a big storm coming. What's kinda different about that from everybody else is that he's had tons of surjuries on his knees and shoulders, so his joints are more sensitive to that kinda weather stuff.

Last summer was the first time that I was able to predict a tornado. There were some big thunderstorm clouds moving in, and with it being in the 80's, at the same time it was SO humid that if felt like almost 100 degrees instead of 85. I thought to myself that time "gee, I wonder if we're gonna get a tornado today". Sure enough, after grocery shopping I turn on the Weather Channel and we're under a tornado watch, later turning into a warning.