tropics
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Because Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbit, areas outside the tropics experience one yearly peak in solar radiation near the summer solstice.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
"The Northern Lights may be distant from the tropics, but the horizons we seek are increasingly one and the same," Indian lawmaker Shashi Tharoor wrote, in the Indian Express daily.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
The storms came from multiple atmospheric rivers that carried large plumes of moisture from the tropics during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year, CBS News reported.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025
What La Niña and El Niño don’t affect, however, are “atmospheric rivers,” which can carry tremendous amounts of rain and snow to California from the tropics, Ralph said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
There is no true twilight in the tropics.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Vocabulary lists containing tropics
Southeast Asia - Introductory
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