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That the weather intensifies or even causes human pain and discomfort is a truth held to be self-evident through the ages by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. From arthritis to asthma, allergies to the flu, Vitamin D deficiencies to seasonal affective disorder, to feel ill or be sick is to be “under the weather.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething in the Air is a conversational, historical, clinical, and factual tour of the science of biometeorology, addressing what is known about weather-health interaction and separating reality from folklore. Once an arcane discipline, biometeorology’s revived popularity is evident in the daily “health” forecasts for arthritis, migraines, and allergies that appear on the sites like Weather.com and AccuWeather.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this inviting and intriguing book, author and veteran Philadelphia Inquirer weather writer Anthony R. 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