(NAPSI) As the weather heats up, be sure not to give your car the cold shoulder. Instead, take some time to do a bit of routine maintenance in order to ensure a safe, comfortable and fuel-efficient driving season.
“Simple maintenance to your vehicle following the harsh winter months can make a huge difference when it comes to keeping your car on the road and getting the most out of this driving season,” says Jim MacPherson, car care expert and automotive radio host for WTIC-AM in Connecticut.
MacPherson suggests that you should help prepare your car for warm-weather drives by following this simple checklist before you hit the road:
According to a study published in the journal Neurology, a drop in barometric air pressure (which usually happens before it rains) or a spike in temperature can cause severe headaches.
Kenneth J. Mukamal, MD, the study’s lead author and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says: “In the summer, you may think that ice cream set off your migraine. But it wasn’t the ice cream — it was the temperature increase on that very hot day that led you to eat the ice cream.”
Migraines affect 18 percent of women and 6 percent of men in the United States. But instead of holing up in an air-conditioned home when the weather changes, people can take medication to prevent headaches. For example, beta-blockers help many people avoid a migraine.
You can see the cloud send out little lightning feeder lines to find the quickest path to the ground. Once the path is found, the main lightning bolt streaks to the ground.
Time-lapse video shows the storm’s progress from midnight EST to 10:30 am EST in Long Island, New York. When the video starts, there are already several inches of snow on the ground. By the following morning, there was more than a foot of snow.
