AlphDoti wrote:Lolest! wrote:Wakanyugi wrote:Muriel wrote:Lolest! wrote:radio wrote:Lolest! wrote:What causes this cool weather in August yet we are at the equator?
Low temperatures!
So you will want us to believe that low temps cause winter huko majuu?? Surely!!
I think for mayuu it is 'very low temperatures'.
Where were you when Mrs Wambugu covered this lesson in Geography?
In August the sun is at one of the farthest points from the equator - relative to the Earths tilt on its axis and the oval curvature of its orbit around the sun.
You can thank me (appropriately)at the next mbuzi
Thanks Wakanyugi
But this piksha confuses me more. Shouldn't we be having 2 cool seasons if distance from the sun is the only cause of the Jul-Aug baridi?
I slept through that class
but at least I remember mwalimu saying there is no place in Kenya that is COLD even in August not unless it's on top of Mt Kenya. The word is COOL
Good question @lonest. I wanted to ask him exactly same question, since the sun goes to the two farthest points Northward and Southward, how come we don't experience same level of low temp during Dec when the sun is on the Southmost point?
I am not an expert in this field. I am simply relying on recalled knowledge from years back.
But from the diagram above I think the answer to your question can be easily discerned. The red arrows show the Earth leaning away or towards the sun at the two solstices giving the north and south hemispheres a double impact (from varying distance from the sun and from the earths axial obliquity). The middle section, however, receives a fairly even distribution of the suns light and heat as you can see. Even then this is not a perfect distribution and we do get weather that is slightly cooler/hotter from the norm at least once a year.
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)