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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Come to India mate!!! You will find six seasons here. No other countries has that number seasons.
I thought this was elementary knowledge? I know this is ELI5 but seriously…
Also clearly it breaks the rules as it has a straightforward answer, just one google search away.
From India, no real winter in the southern areas. Just Hot season, Hotter season, and Wet season
Vietnamese here, many people talked about how the tropics have wet and dry season, but didn’t explain why.
The reason is in fact due to the normal four seasons that temperate regions experience. Take a look at [this diagram](https://scijinks.gov/what-is-a-monsoon/monsoon-conditions.jpg) to see how the monsoon air current flows. When it’s summer in the north, the circular flow results in moist air blown into land from the sea, resulting in rain season in the tropics. Vice versa, the tropics experience dry season during winter.
My time in Costa Rica was wild; the sun sets and rises at 6pm and 6am almost to the minute , didn’t need an alarm clock for the first time in my life for the entire six weeks I was there.
They have two seasons ; hot dry (summer), and warm wet (winter). With alarmingly little transition time.
Short answer: indeed, near the equator there are no seasons in the sense that we have them in Europe or North America.
However, there can be other seasonal effects, which are a result of the fact that the land masses are not equally distributed over the planet. For example, when it is summer (=hot) over a large area of water (=ocean) then there is more evaporated water (=clouds) in the atmosphere than when it is hot over a dry land mass. If you live in the area where these clouds typically drift to, you will experience a “rain season”, whereas the time when this isn’t the case will be a “dry season”. Ask people, e.g. living in India what that means 🙂
In relaity it is a bit more complicated, as different heating patterns can also change the wind directions, etc. but in general, this is about it.
They have seasons too, it’s just not as extreme as people living in the north and south. The seasons come from the Earth’s tilt and the fact that the yearly orbit isn’t a perfect circle as well.
It’s typically wet and hot season here in the Philippines, right now it’s supposedly wet, but it comes with intermittent days when it is just freaking hot and dry. And today is one of those days
Yup.
I’m from Singapore where it’s 1.5 degrees north of the Equator.
The seasons here are “hot”, “hot and wet”, “fucking hot”, and “fucking wet”.
Excuse the length of day stays consistent, you won’t get the same hot/cold seasons you get in northern and southern latitudes.
What you will see though are other seasonal changes – primarily wet/dry seasons.
This can happen because weather patterns are BIG. So the fact that it is winter and cold in the North Pacific will alter things like the wind strengths and patterns, or the amount of moisture carried in the air, which will then travel down to the more Equatorial regions (being directed, deflected and altered by the intervening landmasses and currents) and alter the weather patterns seasonally there.
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