> The whole "6am sunrise and 6pm sunset every day of the year" thing at the equator is kind of mind blowing. You can take this further. Look at weather and sea

> The whole "6am sunrise and 6pm sunset every day of the year" thing at the equator is kind of mind blowing. You can take this further. Look at weather and seasons. Here's Nairobi's yearly averages[0]. You can see that both temperature and precipitation are fairly consistent. On the other side of the continent Libreville[1] has a bit more precipitation variance but still low temperature variance. Let's got to South America with Macapa[2] and Quito[3] and let's keep going and land in Kuching[4]. Essentially in these regions, there are no real seasons. At least in the sense that many think of them. Things do change, but winter isn't that different than summer. I know there are variances, but the scale masks a bit of what's going on. So let's look at London[5], Osaka[6], Auckland[7], Los Angeles[8] (often joked at for having no weather), Seattle[9], and Oslo[10]. As you can see, these are extremely different situations. It even has large effects on how people think about weather, time, and other things. It's funny how what is so obvious and normal to some are completely different to others. Sometimes seeming as if we live in different worlds. In some sense, we do, and I think we often forget that. [0] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/kenya/nairobi/climate [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/gabon/libreville/climate [2] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/brazil/macapa/climate [3] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/ecuador/quito/climate [4] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/malaysia/kuching/climate [5] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/uk/london/climate [6] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/japan/osaka/climate [7] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/new-zealand/auckland/climate [8] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/los-angeles/climate [9] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/seattle/climate [10] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/norway/oslo/climate