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
It was going to Halifax and the cold turn the weather had taken and his insufficient clothing made him desire a trip to the tropic Sugar Isles above all else.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a vast network of ocean currents that carries warm water northward from the tropics.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
No two El Niños are alike, but the disruption is felt most sharply in the tropics.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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
What El Niño and its colder sibling pattern don’t affect, however, are “atmospheric rivers,” which can carry tremendous amounts of precipitation to California from the tropics, Ralph said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
For the first time in history, a taste native to the tropics was exactly matched by a plant grown in a colder area.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
