The linguistic and emotional effects of weather on UK social media users.

ABSTRACT: Weather significantly impacts mood and happiness, yet observing this at scale and differentiating across weather types is challenging. This study examines the variation in public sentiment related to different weather conditions, as reflected in the vocabulary used in UK-based social media (Twitter) content. We introduce a novel context-sensitive sentiment metric to construct scales that rank words and emojis by both weather severity and emotional intensity, controlling for linguistic variations that naturally occur in different discussion topics. Our findings reveal that emotional responses to weather are complex, influenced by combinations of weather variables and regional language differences. For five weather conditions (temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind speed and barometric p

SUBMITTER: Young JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11889188 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature