Health
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Nine out of every ten people that get hit by lightning survive, according to a post today by The Week magazine. But their health afterwards can be significantly changed, and even their personalities can be affected by the trauma as well as the rewiring of their internal electrical circuits (which is really what the nervous…
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Here are some useful infographics from the American Public Health Association which describe the relationships between changes in climate and various aspects of human health, including effects on air quality, rising temperatures, and vector-borne diseases. You can see them all at https://www.apha.org/news-and-media/multimedia/infographics/how-climate-change-affects-your-health.
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As summer temperatures across the Southeast continue to rise as they have since the 1970s, exposure of outdoor workers to conditions favorable for heat stress is also increasing. If you have workers that spend a lot of time out in the heat, you are most likely already encouraging them to take breaks in the shade,…
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Digg.com has an interesting (if somewhat intense) article about what it is like to be hit by a stroke of lightning. Surprisingly, nine out of ten people survive a lightning stroke, but the lasting physical changes can be unnerving or downright dangerous. You can read it at https://digg.com/2017/what-its-like-struck-by-lightning?utm_source=atlasobscura.
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While scientific studies on the relationship between weather and human health vary, from anecdotal evidence I have heard from friends and colleagues, I think there is a pretty clear relationship for at least some people between how the weather is changing from day to day and how they feel. This article from The Path magazine…
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One of the more unusual stories this week was the report that respiratory distress linked to thunderstorms in Melbourne, Australia, caused thousands of asthma attacks and four deaths earlier this week. You can read more about it in the Capital Weather Gang here. The culprit was grass pollen which was concentrated ahead of the storm…
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Chris Robbins of iWeatherNet.com posted some interesting statistics on trends in lightning fatalities earlier this week. They show a significant decrease in lightning deaths from 1940 to the present. I think a lot of this can be attributed to the public information that has been stressed by the National Weather Service and other meteorologists. But…