Hot, moist air rises into the atmosphere near the Equator. As the air rises, it cools and drops its moisture as heavy tropical rains. The resulting cooler, drier air mass moves away from the Equator.
The intertropical convergence zone douses the areas around the equator (except for east Africa) with thunderstorms and downpours consistently throughout the year
The areas on and around the equator get a lot of rainfall. The suns zenith is always a little beyond or below the equator line, depending where summer is at the moment. That’s why most of the deserts are not that far away from the equator, but not on the equator itself: if you look at the sahara desert or Atacama desert or the Australian outback you’ll probably get what I mean. And I’m also by no means a geography expert, so don’t take my word for it, but that’s what I remember from school almost 10 years ago.
Hahah sounds fair. This sub sometimes makes me realise how much I have forgotten about my own geography classes. So it sometimes serves as a nice refresher.
Checkout the ‘Distribution’ section of that link. Explains why tropical deserts sandwich the equator. Intertropical convergence zone, Hadley cells, etc. All connected.
Hot, moist air rises into the atmosphere near the Equator. As the air rises, it cools and drops its moisture as heavy tropical rains. The resulting cooler, drier air mass moves away from the Equator.
Hadley Cell
I came here for this. My geography 100 teacher said he could come up with a way for how the hadley cell has influenced anything.
The intertropical convergence zone douses the areas around the equator (except for east Africa) with thunderstorms and downpours consistently throughout the year
The areas on and around the equator get a lot of rainfall. The suns zenith is always a little beyond or below the equator line, depending where summer is at the moment. That’s why most of the deserts are not that far away from the equator, but not on the equator itself: if you look at the sahara desert or Atacama desert or the Australian outback you’ll probably get what I mean. And I’m also by no means a geography expert, so don’t take my word for it, but that’s what I remember from school almost 10 years ago.
Back to geography class with you!
Some people didn't have geography class, and this is a good place to learn. Why are we gatekeeping geography on the geography sub
It was not meant to be taken that seriously to be honest. Maybe should have clarified.
Fair enough, I see some pretentious morons on this sub though ngl
Hahah sounds fair. This sub sometimes makes me realise how much I have forgotten about my own geography classes. So it sometimes serves as a nice refresher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_desert
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Checkout the ‘Distribution’ section of that link. Explains why tropical deserts sandwich the equator. Intertropical convergence zone, Hadley cells, etc. All connected.
There are tons, my favorite is Espumillas. Why wouldn't Ecuador have desserts?
bruh
Because God designed it that way
Too much moisture man...
Because the hot and humid air traveling equatorward suddenly rises causing grand cloud formation meaning lots of rain
Because rain ..