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Weather has everything to do with how we feel including our inner body. Joints muscles scar tissue all react to changes in barometric pressure

📉 The latest winter pressure outlook is in and I need you to see this. Human barometers, take note. 🤕

The ECMWF model’s seasonal pressure anomaly map for December–February is painting a large area of persistent low pressure across much of the West, Rockies, Plains and into the South and East. Yeah…that’s most of the country and across Western Canada, too. That’s the opposite of a calm, high-pressure winter. If this holds, which is likely given the Super El Niño underway, a lot of us are looking at weeks of falling or already-low barometric pressure instead of the steadier highs that give many bodies a break.

For those of you with migraines, fibromyalgia, Meniere’s and joint pain, you already know what that feels like. I’m also hearing from people with POTS and Chiari malformation. Pressure swings can mess with blood flow, intracranial pressure, dizziness and that “wired but exhausted” crash. You are not making it up, there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence tying pressure dips, especially, with aggravated symptoms.

This lower-than-normal pressure pattern often shows up in stronger El Niño winters. An active storm track = more pressure dips and rises. 🎢 It doesn’t mean every single day will be awful, but the baseline looks lower and more unsettled than normal for a big part of the country. Eastern Canada looks relatively higher - but still not a free pass as stronger systems will inevitably roll through.

Start thinking now about pacing, heat, hydration and whatever helps you ride the drops. We have a couple months to get ready. I’ll be tracking pressure trends here at least once a week, so follow along!

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