Arthritis Pain Question: Can people with arthritis predict changes in the weather because their bones ache? Answer: Maybe it's because some people with arthritic pain want compensation for their suffering that they claim to be human barometers. "Hey, it hurts, but I know something that you don't!" Big deal. I'll turn on the radio and get the weather report. But are such people right? Can they feel it in their bones? Or is it just hot air when they prognosticate precipitation? You would think that with the marvels of modern medicine and the fortune we spend on research, we would have stumbled on a definitive answer. But we haven't. One thing that research does point to is the likelihood that arthritis often signals to sufferers some change in the weather, but it doesn't indicate specifically what's coming. That's about as useful as predicting that future developments will develop.   (Source: TRIUMPH OF THE STRAIGHT DOPE by Cecil Adams)