Why are the areas in the equator not as hot and dry as deserts even though they’re closer to the sun?
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Because being closer to the sun doesn’t have anything to do with how hot it is. Changing elevation, or even the parts of our orbit that are closer to the sun are such a small portion of the distance between us that it had almost no effect.
Temperature/seasons are caused by the angle of our planet and how much direct sunlight we receive. Now, as far as humidity and temperature, a lot of that is affected by moist air being moved around by currents around the equator, but I don’t understand enough of that specifically to comment on it.
By extension, if I’m not mistaken, since our axis of rotation is tilted, the equator isn’t even the closest place to the sun. Not all the time at least.
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