jaunthie | Weather prediction, headache-style

Fortunately yesterday's splitting headache (which it most definitely was by mid-afternoon) was a) not so bad that I was rendered nonfunctional and b) disappeared as soon as the massive weather front (and accompanying shift in pressure) zipped on through our area that evening. Over the past couple of years, I have noticed that I am growing increasingly aware of big weather systems as they come through. I've had a pretty good weather sense since I was a teenager, but in the last three-five years I've developed a fairly acute sensitivity to big drops in barometric pressure. Which is to say, nearly every time we get a big windstorm through here, I get a noticable headache about 4-6 hours in advance.

Taken all in all, I would rather that I have an achy knee or thumb or other joint that tells me when it's about to rain/storm/blow, as is read about in books. However, I will say that the headache-before-it-really-storms attribute that I have (fairly indisputably) developed has come in handy. It has kept me from being trapped on the other side of the lake several times now, which is not a bad thing.

Still. Not a particularly welcome event, that storm headache, coming as it did right on the heels of two days of being whomped. Hopefully I'm done with headaches for oh, the next month or so.