8/10: Boost Your Mood, Come Rain or Shine!

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Karin Andrea Stephan

Entrepreneur, Senior Leader & Ecosystem Builder with a degrees in Music, Psychology, Digital Mgmt & Transformation. Co-founder of the Music Factory and Earkick. Life-long learner with a deep passion for people, mental health and outdoor sports.

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How weather affects you has a lot to do with your activities and what you prefer. Summer Lovers experience an improved mood in warm and sunny weather. 

For another category mood declines on rainy days, while for the Unaffected, weather doesn’t count much. 

Small silhouette of a person with backpack on rocky mountain slope with raised hands over valley covered with white puffy clouds, watching the sun rise.
Person embracing nature, sun, clouds and wind, standing on a mountain slope with raised hands.

Most people feel best when temperatures are 10°C – 21°C, the  atmospheric pressure is high and skies are clear. Interestingly, the winter season and snowy weather can also boost your mental wellbeing.

Although you can’t control the weather, monitoring your symptoms will get you ready to outsmart dark, rainy, cold, or hot seasons.

Find Natural Light ☀️

Increase your serotonin production, mood, memory and creativity by spending as much time outside and in motion as you can. Create routines for outdoor time and exercise  in the Earkick AI therapist app and find out what works best for you.

Three screenshots showing how mood and anxiety are correlated with the weather in the Earkick app
Three screenshots showing how mood and anxiety are correlated with the weather in the Earkick app

Want to dig deeper into the science of how weather influences your emotional health and what you can do to feel your best? Check out the following sources:

  1. Come rain or come shine: individual differences in how weather affects mood
  2. Neural Substrates Associated with Weather-Induced Mood Variability
  3. The Nordic Exceptionalism: What Explains Why the Nordic Countries Are Constantly 
  4. Among the Happiest in the World
  5. The science behind why snowy weather is good for your mental health
  6. Weather and Health Symptoms
  7. Temperature and mental health: Evidence from the spectrum of mental health outcomes
  8. Impact of Temperature on Physical and Mental Health: Evidence from China
  9. Hot days lead to more mental health emergencies, study finds
  10. Is there an association between hot weather and poor mental health outcomes? A systematic review and meta-analysis
  11.  7 Rainy Day Activities to Brighten Your Mood

The Earkick AI therapy chatbot is built on four science-based elements. Check out the respective blog post on why and how we designed it.

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Karin Andrea Stephan

Organisational Psychologist, Senior Leader, Entrepreneur, Author, with a degrees in Music, Psychology, Digital Mgmt & Transformation. Co-founder of the Music Factory and Earkick. Life-long learner with a deep passion for people, healthspan and outdoor activities.