Four weeks of climate data:The Southern Tropics

As we move south from the Northern Temperate Zone, we get more ocean and less land mass. With the Southern Tropics, I decided not to be so arbitrary about the width of the six regions and cut this part of the world into six slices that made sense geographically. The first slice is the usual width of 60 degrees of longitude and covers Africa and Madagascar.

 

The next slice is thinner and is mostly open Indian Ocean.

The last slice of the Eastern Hemisphere is wider than usual and covers the Southern part of Indonesia, the tropical part of Australia, all of New Guinea and some of the islands east of Australia, best known to Americans as the places where the Pacific theater of World War II was fought.

The first slice of the Western Hemisphere is more open ocean, this time the South Pacific.

The second slice gives us all of South America and the Galapagos.

The last slice is open ocean in the south Atlantic.

Later today, we will look at the numbers for the first two sections.