equatorial

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This weakening warms the usually cooler central and eastern sides of the ocean, altering rainfall over the equatorial Pacific and wind patterns around the world.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

Stronger geomagnetic storms allow the lights to reach increasingly equatorial regions.

From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2025

The authors compared their work with imagery of Mars in the equatorial southern highlands, which is heavily cratered but also full of valley networks.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

During La Niña, unusually cold temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean typically send winter storms on more northerly tracks, leaving the southern U.S. warmer and drier.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024

And Vespucci had sailed 50 degrees south of the equator: this was not just the equatorial antipodes that some exponents of the two-spheres theory had envisaged.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton