Weather based depression?

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Anyone here experienced this phenomenon? If yes, why did it happen to you? I had this three years ago, when the summer heat lasted till mid september (I think it was the summer of 2015).

I got a huge depression like almost no other before. For me, the summer was unbearable enough already. I just wanted the it to end. Fotunately my depression stopped almost the same day as it got colder.

Edit: The reason I post it here is because I think there might be a correlation to sensory sensitivities.

I’m not especially affected by day to day weather but I have had bouts of seasonal affective disorder, leading me to get depressed in winter. Something about the cold and the gray overcast for weeks or months on end really has an effect on my psyche. I don’t know if this is more common in people with ASD.

Seems to be pretty common in NT‘s too. Could also be a result of lacking sunlight. But that wouldn‘t make alot of sense in my case. Well maybe Ill find something in the web about summer depressions.

I don't know if this relates, but I always feel happiest whenever it rains.

Even days that are cold, cloudy, and windy put me in a good mood.

It could relate. Is sunlight also to bright and warm for you? Well I don‘t really like raindrops on my skin but I also like cloudy or cold weather.

I'm a rain-lover, too.
Heat and sunlight are just so uncomfortable.

And snow, I adore snow (but mainly watching it from somewhere warm and cozy)
"and nobody knows, tiddley-pom, how cold my toes, tiddley-pom, how cold my toes, are growing"

But I also have some kind of barometric sensitivity, which means that a day before the rain, when the low-pressure system is moving in, I get fatigue and headaches and tend to snap at people.

Can't win, really

I guess I am an outlier. I just took a nice long walk in the blazing sun and loved it.

But I do love snow and I really like the song by Garbage "I'm Only Happy When It Rains".

Makes no sense but it is what it is.

The recent extreme hot weather has made me more depressed, because it's so hot I can't get anything done, and I can even get sick from it.
And I have no air-conditioning.

Most people get emotionally affected by the weather.

I love the winter being able to go for long walks without feeling hot and sweaty afterwards.
as far as I'm concerned it's summer blues not winter blues, i hate the heat, the flies, the tiredness.
We're in our winter now and when people complain about it being cold i just say it's not cold enough.

I get the same thing; I hate that kind of humid weather when it feels like a thunderstorm should break, but it never comes - it makes me incredibly irritable and won't get any sleep. I'm the same with pressure from altitude; I have to swallow to relieve the feeling of pressure sometimes just from descending 100ft or so in a car or bus to go into town a couple of miles away. I don't have any sinus problems that I know of, but I can always tell when the atmospheric pressure is changing or is particularly high.

Hot weather is stressful, there's no doubt about it. Here's some ways in which it can be hard on you. I don't like the heat either, as you can dress for the cold, but if it's hot you can go into shorts and T-shirts, but then all you can do is literally sit back and be lazy (boring!!).

But if you find it overbearing maybe you have seasonal affective disorder? It's most common in the fall/winter, but it can occur in the spring/summer too.

Thank you very much! I really like her videos.

Yeah it seems that I got this to a certain degree.