Weather-Related Disease: Asthma (Weather Blog 1)

An asthma attack can be caused by certain weather conditions ranging from being extremely hot to extremely cold and from raining to having a thunderstorm. Furthermore, environmental pollutants and allergens can be the cause of an asthma attack. Some of the allergens or environmental pollutants include pollen, dander from animals, and smoke. Not to mention, changes in weather conditions such as a change in humidity can also cause an asthma attack. Moreover, changes in temperature could a cause in the irritation of the airways in the lungs. In addition, changes in temperature in the lung airways could be the cause of inflammation in the lung airways. Additionally, people who have asthma and mainly uses their mouth to breath and have more irritants and pollutants that enters into their airways than people who breathe their nose. Due to the fact that people who have asthma already have lung airways with inflammation, when higher level of severity of the asthma, and high chance that weather could affect their health. 
Furthermore, common weather triggers that could make asthma symptoms worse include: heat (higher levels of heat during the summer, high levels of ozone from fumes of exhaust, smog, and from pollutants can cause symptoms of an asthma attack), wind and rain (winds are capable of blowing pollen and mold around in the air and rain causes spores of mold to stir up and build up in capacity), cold air (temperature drops can trigger asthma attacks), lightning (thunderstorms can develop ozone), and flunctuations from air pressure (barometric pressure and cause episodes of sinus which in turn causes sinusitis which are often capable of causing asthma attacks).
Different Seasons of Year
Spring:
Spring is the season that symbolizes the pollen season. Furthermore, pollen is an allergen can cause inflammation in the lung airways and is a culprit in the cause of asthma attacks when it is inhaled into the lung airways. Higher levels of pollen counts during the spring cause are correlated with a larger amounts of visits in the emergency room at local hospitals due to asthma-related incidents. Above all, pollen represents the main cause of the increasing asthma attacks during the spring season.
Summer:
Incidents of asthma attacks seems to be and is usually the lowest in the months of summer. However, some people still suffer from asthma attacks during the summer season because those individuals have sickly reactions to higher levels of humidity and heat which varies significantly for each individual. Not to mention, there are also people who can have asthma attacks in areas with high levels of humidity and some individuals do not have any reaction in those same exact areas. Furthermore, summer weather often seems to be related with unhealthy air quality in the urban areas with high levels of density. Pollution from all the cars due to traffic and sunlight are the perfect combination for the ozone production which are capable of triggering asthma attacks in individuals. The heat waves with high levels of humidity in the air during the summer months are capable of trapping pollutants and causes those pollutants to become more concentrated in the air. Above all, the poor air quality and air days can cause asthma attacks in certain individuals.
Fall:
Cooler climate, colder air, and cooler weather causes individuals suffering from asthma to have their lungs tighten up or swell. Furthermore, people who suffer from asthma have a more severe illness when infected with a virus than individuals who do not have a virus. Not to mention, infections in the respiratory tract and exacerbate the levels of inflammation of the lung airways in individuals with asthma and cause symptoms of coughing, wheezing, having a difficult time to breathing on a daily basis, and asthma attacks.
Winter:
When people with asthma breathe in large quantities of air that is cold and dry at the same time can exacerbate their health and causes the already inflamed lung airways to swell up and could cause wheezing in some individuals. During the winter, people suffering from asthma needs to be more careful when going outdoors especially for people living in the east coast. Not to mention, indoor allergens can cause asthma attacks for some people due the fact that the heaters are turned on while all the windows are closed.
Reference: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/asthma