O heaven above me, thou modest one! thou glowing one! O thou, my happiness before sunrise!
I’ve covered these highly counter-intuitive findings before and the title of that article sums it up: Weather Has Little Effect on Mood.
Most of us intuitively think the weather has quite a strong effect on our mood. Many assume that the rain and cold weather depresses us and sun and warmth perks us up.
So why don’t we see this effect in the research?
That’s the question a new study by Klimstra et al. (2011) tries to answer.
And it turns out this is true. In fact Klimstra et al. found four distinct groups:
1. Unaffected
2. Summer lovers
3. Summer haters
4. Rain haters
photo { Mark Rice }
