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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I’ve often wondered, if equatorial countries don’t really have seasons (compared to non-equatorial), do trees there have rings?
It is weird that no-one mentions the actual fact that on the equator, at the time when people near the poles experience their equinox, the path of the sun would go directly overhead each day, and at the time people in the poles would experience their summer and winter, the path of the sun would pass a few degrees north or south of overhead. This means, as far as the amount of daily sunshine, there would be two seasons with a bit more sunshine, and two seasons with a bit less. And two times a year, 182.5 days apart, when the sun passes directly overhead.
I’ve never known anyone who lives there, from the Reddit comments here it appears that those two ‘warm’ seasons aren’t significantly warmer than the others, and maybe things like currents in the sea or streams of wind have a bigger effect than the precise angle of the sun….
I guess the seasons also depend a lot on the distance of Earth from sun, since the path is ellipsoid
I grew up in Indonesia, rightly located on the equatorial line. The seasons we have is dry and rainy season, before climate change, the dry season usually starts in mid-February until mid-July, and the rest of the months are wet season.
I don’t know about other countries, but in Indonesia the dry/wet seasons are caused by summer/winter in the northern and southern parts of the equator. During winter in the southern part of the earth, the wind gusts from the south through the desert in Australia and thus bring drier air to Indonesia which creates the dry season. During summer in the southern part of the earth, the wind gusts from the north through the Pacific oceans bringing humid air which creates the wet season.
Generally 3 seasons.
1. Hot and humid with some chance of rain.
2. Hot and humid with absolutely no chance of rain and then we will wonder when was the last time it rained.
3. The monsoon season generally start around November, peaked at December and end after January. Outdoor activities at national park halted, some hiking site closed. Currently it rained pretty much all week long with some days of overcast.
They have recurring weather changes throughout the year but are not necessarily equivalent to seasons outside the tropics because local factors might have more impact than the small change in daytime and sun inclination.
I currently live in Quito, Ecuador. Both being on the equator* and at such high elevation, almost every day is the exact same weather (≈65-75f during the day, dropping down to the 50s at night). The only difference throughout the year is rainy and dry season.
Edit: Ecuador -> equator to keep it in the same language
Guatemalan here: sun rises at 6 amish all year round and sets at 7 pmish. It’s “colder” in December (20 degrees) and “coldest”in January (16?) And then the guest week of the year is good week, march and April being hot AF (high twenties, low thirties). June-July is heavy scheduled rain in the late afternoon and November is windy so people fly kites. I’ve been living abroad for four years and I’m still not used to the seasonal change.
My wife is from the Dominican Republic which is a ways off the equator and they don’t see Winter ever. It’s either hot AF, or still hot outside along with constant humidity.
As someone living in Brazil no! And I hate when people say: “this winter/fall/summer we gonna paint the house…” I have no ideia when a season starts or finish because there’s almost no difference, they look the same.
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