The struggle with shedding hair is real, whether its clogging our drains, sitting in our hairbrushes or strewn around our homes.

Shedding between 50 and 100 strands of hair per day is normal, according to the American Academy of Dermatology Association . But theres no reason to panic if youve recently noticed a lot more than that going down your drain.

A new study published in the British Journal of Dermatology examined the correlation between seasons and hair loss. According to the study, which examined patterns in Google Trends searches for the term hair loss across eight English-speaking countries over 12 years, searches for the term were greater in summer and fall than they are in spring. Winter fell between the two.

There are a few explanations given by dermatologists as to why hair loss increases during summer and fall. In the study, it concludes that the trend suggests that hair loss in the population is significantly correlated with seasonality, and that hair loss occurs most frequently in the summer and fall. This finding, the report reads, is consistent with prior studies that used trichograms and other hair samples to find that telogen hair loss occurs maximally in the summer.