tropic

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The flooding was caused by an atmospheric river, or a long, narrow stream of moist air in the atmosphere, that traveled to Western Washington and dumped warm, tropic rain across the region.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

The country boasts having the highest number of hummingbirds and bats, attributed to its tropic climate and proximity to the equator.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2023

The engine that powers every tropic cyclone is convection: enormous volumes of moist, rising air create a vacuum at the surface that sucks in surrounding air as spiraling winds.

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2023

To explore further, select one of the biomes on the extended playlist: desert, savanna, temperate forest, temperate grassland, tropic, tundra.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The winds were light, and Frightful had to work hard to keep up her speed in the warm air below the tropic of Cancer.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George