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>> They have a winter at the equator??
>
> Huh?
I was under the impression that at the equator there is little or no
variation in weather conditions. (I.e., it's desert *all* year round.)
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> I know this will probably be met with 'Meh' by some people but...
>
> I just got a mail from microsoft.
> "Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft
> MVP
> Award"
>
> Wow. I was not expecting that.
>
> And for those going "What?"
> http://www.microsoft.com/mvp/
Ah I see, I had always noticed that some people had the [MVP] after their
names in a few of the MS newsgroups I read, but wasn't sure what it meant.
Thanks for the link, and congratulations!
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On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:14:02 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>>> They have a winter at the equator??
>>
>> Huh?
>
>I was under the impression that at the equator there is little or no
>variation in weather conditions. (I.e., it's desert *all* year round.)
Johannesburg is not even in the tropics. It has a latitude of 26 degrees South.
There are seasons (I believe :)
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"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message
news:fqtr64ljt9f2d8l5e16n4m5941bf1gm7pt@4ax.com...
> Johannesburg is not even in the tropics. It has a latitude of 26 degrees
South.
> There are seasons (I believe :)
There are. Though our winter's probably about the same average temperature
as early summer in England, the summers get scorchingly hot
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:486ddbcb$1@news.povray.org...
> >> They have a winter at the equator??
> >
> > Huh?
>
> I was under the impression that at the equator there is little or no
> variation in weather conditions. (I.e., it's desert *all* year round.)
Actually, if you look at the climate of the places on the equator, it's more
like tropical forest. Hot and humid all year round. The deserts tend to be a
little further away.
The Sahara lies mostly between the 15 degrees N and 30 degrees N latitudes.
The Namib desert lies mostly around the 20-28 degrees S latitudes
In addition, I don't live at the equator. There's a reason the country is
called South Africa, not Central African Rebublic or Equatorial ... (both of
which do exist and do lie on the equator)
Johanesburg is somewhere around 2000 km south of the equator, at latitude 26
degrees 12 minutes South
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Invisible wrote:
> I was under the impression that at the equator there is little or no
> variation in weather conditions. (I.e., it's desert *all* year round.)
It's not all desert. There are tropical rain forests on the equator.
That said, I'd think spring and fall are very similar, and winter and
summer are very similar, just based on the geometry.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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before putting them in the washing machine.
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> Actually, if you look at the climate of the places on the equator, it's more
> like tropical forest. Hot and humid all year round. The deserts tend to be a
> little further away.
Really? How counterintuitive...
> The Sahara lies mostly between the 15 degrees N and 30 degrees N latitudes.
> The Namib desert lies mostly around the 20-28 degrees S latitudes
See, now I didn't even know the Namib was *in* Africa. (But then, until
yesterday I didn't know where the Gobi was either...)
> In addition, I don't live at the equator. There's a reason the country is
> called South Africa, not Central African Rebublic or Equatorial ... (both of
> which do exist and do lie on the equator)
>
> Johanesburg is somewhere around 2000 km south of the equator, at latitude 26
> degrees 12 minutes South
Mmm, OK. Africa is clearly significantly larger than I thought. ;-)
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Mmm, OK. Africa is clearly significantly larger than I thought. ;-)
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/35-the-size-of-africa/
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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Check your feather pillows for holes
before putting them in the washing machine.
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Darren New wrote:
> http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/35-the-size-of-africa/
OK, now that really *is* counter-intuitive. On a map, it looks like the
coast of Africa and America would "fit together" if you moved a few
tectonic plates around. But this diagram shows that America is many
times smaller than Africa, so this would be quite impossible.
This is puzzling, since I thought that Africa *was* connected to America
in the fairly recent geological past...
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> OK, now that really *is* counter-intuitive. On a map, it looks like the
> coast of Africa and America would "fit together" if you moved a few
> tectonic plates around. But this diagram shows that America is many
> times smaller than Africa, so this would be quite impossible.
> This is puzzling, since I thought that Africa *was* connected to America
> in the fairly recent geological past...
Uh, which "America" are you talking about? The continent named "America"
or the country named "United States of America" (often shortended as just
"America")?
That image has the USA compared to Africa, not the whole American
continent.
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- Warp
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