tropic

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 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

A dangerous wave of wildfires is spreading across the tropics, and the Amazon rainforest is now facing a growing crisis.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

Heat still has to move away from the tropics.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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

In the winter the frigid air that flows north from the Pole creates one cyclone after another and collides with warmer air from the tropics, spinning off gales, hurricanes, and blizzards.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong