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 live in Quito, Ecuador, like 18 miles south of the equatorial line. The city is almost 9000 foot above sea level, and temperatures go from 15 c to 28 c most of days. Nights could go from 6 c to 12 c. All days during the year have 12 hours, it’s very strange when we travel north or south and realize hoy days can get shorter or longer depending on the season.
We do have a rainy season from October to April, but rains can also appear in any month of the year. Rain is not an issue for cities located in the Andes, but floods are serious stuff in the coastal region and in the Amazon.
Southern California:
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Warmer
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1 or 2 weeks out of the year, we might experience a heat wave.
While cost of living is very expensive to live here, and no matter how many times I always think about leaving/moving from here, nothing beats the weather here.
I grew up mostly in Indonesia. The temperature was a pretty constant 85-90F. However, there was a wet and a dry season. The saying was it rains one a day in the dry season and twice a day in the wet season.
In South Florida we have summer, and the season where everyone comes here to avoid winter. 26 degrees north
That would depend A LOT on what part of the world you are.
Weather is a global thing, and even if there isn’t much of a variation in the sunshine, the impact on other parts of the world Does change local weather significantly. The local features like mountains, ocean proximity, etc., further complicate this.
In general, however, there are no clearly defined four seasons as you would see in the US or Europe.
As an example, the region in Brazil where I’m from is far from the ocean and up in the mountains. We do have what is called “tropical wet-and-dry”. It means we have one very dry winter between June and August (with temperatures between 15-25C) and a very rainy summer between December and February (between 20-29C). In between, there isn’t much of a difference between spring and autumn, with temperatures and rainfall slowly trending torward the next summer/winter. (If you squint you may see some spring/autumn features like more flowers in spring or some yellowing of the leaves on autumn, but nothing as pronounced as in the north)
For me, living in Europe for the last 4 years, the biggest difference isn’t the temperature. That’s something I was expecting. But the difference in daytime duration. How is it dark at 4PM in the Winter? And what the hell is the sun doing up there at 10PM during summer?
Also, anecdotally, the hotest temperatures I’ve ever experienced were in Europe. Madrid (42C) and Paris (43!!) Where by FAR way worst than anything I’ve experienced in my hometown in Brazil.
I lived in Gabon for a couple of years, near the equator. The sun rose and set around 6:30 year round and there weren’t tides which was odd. The seasons were rainy season (most of the year) and dry season (our summer months).
I live very close to the equator here we don’t have traditional seasons, our temperatures very from 29c-40c every year, with a few outliers.
Our breakdown of seasons is the following
Raining season Jan-April
Hot May-Ouct
Really hot Nov-Dez
In my city we have temperatures between 14-24°C throughout the year. What does change though, is the rainy days. In “winter” there’s usually more clouds and rain, and in “summer” we have sunny days. That’s in my city which is 2150 meters above the sea.
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