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[Fact Off]

Project Ice Storm - possible effects of stress on pregnancy

https://www.thoughtco.com/canadian-ice-storm-in-1998-508705

https://www.mcgill.ca/projetverglas/publications

https://www.mcgill.ca/projetverglas/icestorm

https://www.mcgill.ca/projetverglas/files/projetverglas/Laplante2007FunctionalPlay.pdf

https://www.child-encyclopedia.com/stress-and-pregnancy-prenatal-and-perinatal/according-experts/prenatalperinatal-stress-and-its

Blood/red rain mystery in Spain

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/882233

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20028490

https://www.livescience.com/62999-siberian-blood-rain-iron-oxide.html

[Ask the Science Couch]

Aches before storms

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/internalmedicine/50/18/50_18_1923/_pdf

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/do-you-get-a-migraine-headache-when-it-rains/

https://theconversation.com/can-bad-weather-really-cause-headaches-158258

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00484-014-0859-8

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7659442/

[Butt One More Thing]

Lightning in plumbing

https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/faq.html

http://lightningsafety.com/nlsi_lls/lightning-caused-deaths.pdf (table 3)

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/how-hurricanes-form.html