Can changes in atmospheric pressure affect our mood?

If true, it must have had a very subtle effect. Several studies have looked at the associations between weather and our mood, and atmospheric pressure appears to have the least effect.

A study of outpatients with rapid cycling bipolar disorder at the University of Virginia found that their mood swings correlated well with changes in temperature, but significantly less with changes in pressure.

But mood is a very individual thing, and the researchers found that no single equation could be used to describe the mood changes of all subjects in the study.

And even where correlations can be found, it is much more difficult to say whether they are a result of the temperature or pressure itself, or from the indirect influence of that effect on the weather.

We are more likely to feel cheerful on bright and sunny days than on dark and rainy days.