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
The trees and the tropic grass were burned and sad from the ferocious northern freeze.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Somehow, a Gaboon viper — whose home is the tropics of central and western Africa — was on the loose Monday in a Southern California neighborhood, police say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The findings reveal a long-distance climate connection in which conditions in the tropics can have major consequences for Antarctica.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Heat still has to move away from the tropics.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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
Then, so suddenly that it seemed to come between one watch and the next, the steamy heat of the tropics descended.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
