![]() Not to mention the increasing number of people who die from heat stress. Some animals and plants do not survive the heat. Animals and plants in nature suffer from the persistent drought. With all this heat, farmers see their crops fail and their incomes dry up. Think of the major dehydration problems in Brabant that the Water Boards are really worried about. Especially when the ‘good weather’ is becoming more extreme. Yet there is also a downside to ‘nice weather’. And then there is the simple effect of the sun on your skin: people produce more serotonin, a substance that makes us happy. For example, they work less, sit outside more, do more sports, and cycle to work more often. How does Hendriks explain this? On hot days, the Dutch spend more time on activities that contribute to their feeling of happiness. And it turns out: the higher the temperatures, the finer the Dutch feel. Happiness researcher Martijn Hendriks linked figures about happiness to temperature. We often use the rain to describe something negative: “after rain, there will be sunshine”. Just think of “being the sun in the house” and “looking at the life from the sunny side”. We know many proverbs and sayings in Dutch, which show our positive image of ‘sun’. KNMI is not the only one to translate ‘sun’ into something good. ‘Good weather’ is a sunny, dry and warm day. That is a day with a lot of sunshine (at least 50 per cent of the time it can actually shine), little or no precipitation (in 24 hours no more than 0.2 millimetres) and a supernormal temperature. What is ‘good weather’? For the statistics, the Dutch weather institute KNMI has defined ‘good weather’. However, the weathermen and women continue to cheerfully announce even more ‘good weather’. ![]() The autumn of 2018 has also set heat records. The farmers, our nature and many people suffered from the heat. We already noticed something of this in 2018. ![]() According to experts, we will have to deal with extreme weather situations more often in the future. What is actually beautiful weather? And why is that a good thing in the first place? Especially when it comes to the announcement of good or beautiful weather. More and more often I listen with amazement to the weather forecast. This Sunday it’s Mary Fiers’ turn, about beautiful (?) weather. The six columnists, occasionally supplemented with guest bloggers, are all working in their own way on solutions for the problems of our time. In a weekly column, alternately written by Maarten Steinbuch, Mary Fiers, Carlo van de Weijer, Lucien Engelen, Tessie Hartjes and Auke Hoekstra, Innovation Origins tries to find out what the future will look like. ![]()
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