Hot weather Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Coping with the annoyances and avoiding the dangers of hot weather
About Hot weather
The Earth's axis is tilted by 23 degrees in relation to the ecliptic, the plane of its orbit around the Sun, and this causes the seasons of winter, spring, summer, and autumn in temperate zones. When your part of Earth is tilted toward the Sun, you get summer; when it is tilted away, winter. A region's weather is typically defined, among other factors, by latitude relative to where the sun is directly overhead, with regions closer to where it is overhead receiving the most intense heat. The latitude at which the sun is overhead "moves" from 23° north of the equator in June to 23° south of the equator in December. Therefore, a city at 30° north of the equator is only 7° north of direct sunlight in summer, causing it to receive high temperatures, but is a significant 53° north of direct sunl
Hot weather Travel Guide Sections
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