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Pain Indices

Rachel writes:
As many of you know, I have arthritis and have realized for some time that I am strongly affected by weather changes. I came across this web site last week while looking for weather info. I can't tell you how validated I felt when I saw this "pain index" that measures barometric pressure pain affects on a scale of 1-10 (by zip code, no less), and on that day (a bad one) it showed my area to be a 7. Unfortunately it only covers the USA.

For those interested the web site is:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/achesandpains/weather/tenday/11729?fro
m=LAPoutlet

And Suzanne sends in a link to a UK pain index:
http://www.weather.co.uk/activities/health/achesandpains/