More than five million people in the UK suffer with asthma. Asthma + Lung UK, external have said that humidity and thunderstorms can cause an 'unseasonal spike' in asthma-related A&E visits ...

[5] In the southern hemisphere, "thunderstorm asthma" epidemics have been reported in Australia. [6] Fivefold to 10-fold increases in emergency visits to major hospitals in Melbourne occurred ...

New details have emerged about the increased risk of critical asthma symptoms for some groups of Asian migrants and descendants in Australia during thunderstorms. People of East or South Asian ...

Australia has recorded the hottest temperatures ... with the chance of rain and a thunderstorm. Elsewhere in the state, the Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting severe heatwave conditions on ...