2025-01-27 11:05:28 AM
Current musings on planetary tilt and seasons. My travels have shown me proof of the shape of South America and crossing of the Atlantic from the North and South. I never thought of it like that before.
It seems reasonable that I have lived most of my life on the 45th parallel. The sun appears to be straight up in the sky at the height of summer. That has me thinking, contrary to the diagram on the globe I grew up with, that the seasonal tilt is uniform between North and South. The weather is quite like it is here in South America at the 45th parallel from my world travel observation.
But I also observed that South America ends to the South in a small tip, while it is reasonable to conclude that it does not do that in the North. Africa also seemed to have a less defined tip like that, although I'm not as confident about that conclusion as I am about South America. LOL! The Panama Canal sure is a unique planet oddity! Not 100% sure on the uniqueness worldwide, but it's likely.