The weather in the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which oscillates from the northern to the southern tropics over the course of the year. The tropical rain belt lies in the southern hemisphere roughly from October to March, and during this time the northern tropics experience a dry season in which precipitation is very rare, and days are typically hot and sunny throughout. From April to September, the rain belt lies in the northern hemisphere, and the southern tropics experience their dry season. The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ... The dry season is a term commonly used when describing the weather in the tropics. ...
The rain belt reaches roughly as far north as the Tropic of Cancer and as far south as the Tropic of Capricorn. Near these latitudes, there is one wet season and one dry season annually. On the equator, there are two wet and two dry seasons as the rain belt passes over twice a year, once moving north and once moving south. Between the tropics and the equator, locations may experience a short wet and a long wet season. Local geography may substantially modify these climate patterns, however. The Tropic of Cancer (cancer (♋) is Latin for crab) is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. ... The Tropic of Capricorn is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. ...
Tropical weather is dominated by the movement of the tropicalrainbelt, which oscillates from the northern to the southern tropics over the course of the year.
The tropicalrainbelt lies in the southern hemisphere roughly from November to March, and during this time the southern tropics experience a wet season, in which rain is common.
The rainbelt reaches roughly as far north as the Tropic of Cancer and as far south as the Tropic of Capricorn.
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