Is it winter already here? It has started raining already..
2007-07-18 14:04:01 · 5 answers · asked by Indie Macbeth 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
" There are technically no seasons between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn."
Twaddle! The seasons of northern Europe were identified by the weather and the behaviour of plants and animals long before Copernicus or Keppler came along. In other parts of the world seasons were also identified and named in exactly the same way.
Northern Europe decided on four seasons but that is not what everyone else did. Across northern Australia, well north of the Tropic of Capricorn, the people of the Kimberley in the northwest have five seasons. The people of Darwin and across the Top End into Kakadu National Park have six seasons. The people of southwest Gulf of Carpentaria have five seasons again but the Wik people of Cape York Peninsula have eight.
If there is such variety in seasons across northern Australia, I am sure the people of the Indonesian islands and south east Asia had named and identified seasons as well. They would not be the spring, summer, autumn, winter of northern Europe but they would be seasons nonetheless.
Europeans have imposed their four seasons on the rest of the world and, for convenience, the world follows suit even though many of us do not have four seasons. Where I live in northern NSW the Banjalung people have six seasons. We're in the frosty season right now and with -4°C this morning, they are right.
2007-07-18 17:20:37 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are technically no seasons between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. However, due to weather patterns upwind (for example, thousands of miles to the north), a region like Singapore may receive different types of weather in an annual cycle.
Defined strictly based on the amount of sunlight, Singapore has almost no seasonal change.
2007-07-18 14:14:57 · answer #2 · answered by lithiumdeuteride 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Singapore dont had the 4 seasons.
Around this time, Jun-Sept mostly very hot, that why there will be haze.
Lucky lately there some wind brow the cloud of rain to this area, cos it to rain.
2007-07-18 14:13:15 · answer #3 · answered by chawcs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
singapore dont have winter
2007-07-18 14:06:51 · answer #4 · answered by AMTRAK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because it's in the Northern Hemisphere and it's astrological summertime.
2007-07-18 16:19:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋