Cloudy with a chance of pain: it’s humidity that really hurts
Cold and rain are less likely to cause aching bones than humidity and wind: weather and pain study
Patients fearing chilly weather will bring on arthritic pain have got it wrong, according to UK researchers, who say temperature is one weather factor that does not impact on pain.
Instead three factors — relative humidity, wind speed and air pressure — are linked with pain, reveals the research, carried out by citizen scientists in the UK.