Due to the Earth’s tilt and position around the Sun, things get very light and warm in summer for us in UK, and then winter becomes very cold and dark. But if you are on the equator, surely the amount of light you get won’t change much?
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Robinson Crusoe has a really good description of the mechanics behind seasons around the equator or in the tropics. In higher latitudes peoples are generally familiar with the cycle of the seasons when the hemisphere is pointed towards the sun it’s summer, pointed away is winter, and the times in between are spring and fall. In the tropics the cycle is shifted but not in the way that australian winter is american summer. On the equator, the sun’s rays are most direct when the rest of the world is experiencing spring or fall and least direct when the rest of the planet is in winter or summer. As a result, equatorial regions have two seasons that alternate twice a year. Those two seasons will be less extreme than seasons in higher latitudes and are usually called wet and dry
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