(WWJ) — If you love spring, you’re in luck, with temperatures in Metro Detroit again expected to climb into the 60s to start the week and hover around 50 this weekend.
But if you love sleep, maybe not so much. We set our clocks back Saturday night as we enter Daylight Saving Time.
People have debated for years whether we should do away with the annual time changes, which always seem to mess up our sleep schedules.
Dr. Kathleen Yaremchuck with the Henry Ford Health Sleep Disorders Center says lack of sleep can lead to irritability, and the time change can even be linked to a rise in car crashes.
“Insufficient sleep leads to problems. I talked about depression, but it also makes you less tolerant of things. You get grumpy, you get aggravated, you find yourself that you’re irritable,” she said live on WWJ Sunday morning.
“The biggest concern, and I’m gonna say for most of us, is that there will be an increase in automobile accidents,” Yaremchuk said.
Lack of sleep, which we often experience as we adjust to the time change, can lead to depression and is frequently seen among teenagers.
“As adults we don’t like missing an hour of sleep, but teenagers especially, this will take a toll on them,” she said.
Yaremchuk says it’s best to start preparing yourself throughout the week ahead of the time change.
Yaremchuk recommends going to bed about 15 minutes earlier than you normally would for a night or two and keep moving that up “until you get where you need to be.”