Reference
Vocks, E., Busch, R., Fröhlich, C., Borelli, S., Mayer, H. and Ring, J. 2001. Influence of weather and climate on subjective symptom intensity in atopic eczema. International Journal of Biometeorology 45: 27-33.
What was done
The authors statistically evaluated the influence of various meteorological variables on the intensity of clinical symptoms (itching) caused by the skin disease atopic eczema in the Swiss high-mountain area of Davos for the period 1983-1989.
What was learned
Based upon the results of the entire seven-year period, itching intensity was found to be inversely correlated with air temperature, air pressure and water vapor pressure, such that an increase in any of these variables decreased the severity of itching. Examination of the three variables during periods of abrupt and/or prolonged change, on the order of several weeks to months, substantially improved the correlations.
What it means
It would appear that future warming - whether local, regional or global - will bring relief from itching to weary suffers of atopic eczema.