1. Suicide
According to the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, “annual suicide deaths outnumber the total deaths from homicide and war combined.” Most people even if they are not suffering from SAD, when coming up with idea of the depressing weather probably think of the cold and cloudy winter days, so it is not surprising that scientists at first thought that the data showing the incidence of suicide, and having a peak during the month of maximum daylight might be flawed, so they kept doing studies and more studies getting similar results. While the seasonal connection is definitively established, as well as that with the amount of daily sunlight and with high temperatures, further research should be conducted towards understanding the relationships of weather and suicides until predicting changes in suicide frequency at various temporal and spatial scales becomes possible. And so we end our list of the 7 ways weather affects human behavior and emotions with a hope that the reader now has a conviction and knowledge why society must do everything that is possible to slow down the climate change.
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