Ángel F. Adames-Corraliza

And the jet is waving all the time.

So you just get days that are warm and days that are cold in alternation.

Right, right.

It is not like this at all.

So the tropics are pretty warm year-round.

So you don't really see that temperature variability that you see here in the mid-latitude.

So things like cold fronts and stuff, that barely exists.

In the tropics, you don't really worry about that.

But yet you still get these periods where it's really, really rainy and alternating with dry periods.

So instead of thinking about temperature variability, it gets really cold or it gets really hot.

In the tropics, it actually gets really humid or it's really dry.

That's really kind of the big thing that drives weather patterns.

It is about the moisture, yeah.

There's other things that matter too, right?

Because it's always more complicated than that.

But if I go to a classroom and I teach people what are the things about the tropics that make the tropics different, that's going to be one of the things that I'm going to mention.

Probably the thing that I'm going to mention.

So...

I don't think we still have a comprehensive theory of the tropics.

At least when you compare it to the mid-latitudes where we have multiple textbooks, we have mature theory, the vast majority of weather forecasting models were initially built to tackle mid-latitude weather, not tropical weather.