Are you a human barometer?

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I have enjoyed weather since I was 5 years old. I used to watch the Weather Channel all day (when they used to have forecasters on 24/7).

I have noticed a trend with my mood.

The day after a cold front ( 50 to 75 percent of my stress and anxiety disappears; rage and anger disappears almost 100 percent)
High pressure overhead (alertness high; I can feel hyper (both in a good way and bad)
High pressure moving away (depression and tension build back up)
Low pressure approaching (the atmospheric pressure nears a plateau, causing depression, anger and anxiety
Right before and during a thunderstorm (as cold front nears)- Extreme hostility and depression

The time of year also affects my mood
Late January through mid march (season depression starts fading)
mid March through late April (My mood is very optimistic)
May through mid June (I feel on Cloud 9; pun intended)
Late June until early August (mood slowly becomes pessimistic)
Mid August through late September (noticable decline in my mood)
October through late January (I am so depressed)

Anyone else affected by weather (mood)?

I go a bit odd just before an earthquake.

I don't sleep as good in the summer for some reason & I hate heat & humidity so hot humid summer days make my mood worse.

^same here, ugh.
the beginning of fall, around late august/september when it has been hot for over 4 months and i'm sick of the heat is when i find myself most irritable and hostile. (also, end of vacations)

i enjoy cold weather, yet i'm not very used to it and get cold easily.
generally, the drier the air, the better. also i'm rather optimistic around december and i feel useless, inferior and pessimistic over the summer, but that has more to do with personal reasons than mama nature.

I don't pay attention to weather forcasts. I look out my window and I trust my intuition more than a weather person.

every time the weather shifts from cold to warm or wet to dry or vice-versa, I get all knotted up.

Only when there's a storm system coming in. My joints let me know about that. And sometimes I get a headache.
I am much more sensitive to changes in temperature and humidity.

I do know I'm a lot more irritable on hot/sunny days. I hate the heat so much. Overcast makes me feel calm. Thunderstorms make me feel a strange calm, similar to overcast, but I also get excited in a good way, because they fascinate me. I love watching out the window during thunderstorms, and I've even stood outside in the rain during a thunderstorm before (I made sure I was in an area safe from lightning). I was pretty cold afterwards though, so I probably won't do that again.

As long as the sun isn't out, I am generally more calm, which is probably part of why I like to stay up late in the night.

Actually, now that I think about it more, my ears are very sensitive to any change in air pressure. Sometimes I have to pop my ears after an elevation change of just a few feet.

I get a headache quite often when the weather turns dull and wet