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While spring is a time for rebirth, ticks are also back. The likelihood of tick-borne infections increases when temperatures rise because these tiny parasites become more active. But what impact do meteorological factors like humidity, temperature, wind, and precipitation have on tick activity, and what does the spring forecast for this year mean? This review aims to discuss how ticks occupy the habitat as a function of different climatic factors, and how these factors impact tick survival and seasonality. Recent developments in climate research, along with improved knowledge of tick-pathogen interactions, tick distribution, and tick-borne pathogen diagnosis, raise concerns about how environmental factors affect tick abundance and spread as well as the incidence and spread of tick-borne pathogens. It is usually challenging to separate the effects of human behavior from those influencing tick host abundance, even while climate surely affects tick distribution and seasonal abundance.