tropic
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El Niño forms when winds blowing over the Pacific, from the Americas toward Asia, die down, allowing warm tropic water pushed up against Asia to slosh toward the Americas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
Her white skirts swirled around her, bright in the tropic sun.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
The tropics receive far more energy from the sun than the poles.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Heat still has to move away from the tropics.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Most primates today live in the tropics, and most primate fossils have been unearthed there too.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
This includes drought across parts of the Amazon, Indonesia and Australia, disrupted monsoons in India, and shifting rainfall throughout the tropics.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
On the island of Java, in Indonesia, lived Homo soloensis, ‘Man from the Solo Valley’, who was suited to life in the tropics.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
