tropic

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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

Floods in Fiji caused by tropic cyclones have displaced thousands of people in recent years and wrought economic havoc.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2022

The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway