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\"QuestionImage\"<\/a>  If January in Colorado is winter and it’s summer in Argentina, is it spring or fall at the Equator? <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

———- from Lloyd Lindsey-Young of Sacramento CA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"  Well, are the leaves turning weird colors or what? You weatherpeople really annoy me, sometimes. Any fool knows all four seasons occur randomly at the equator, usually in the same day. You can have a blizzard at dawn, a heat wave at noon, brown leaves by sundown and hailstones at midnight. I advise you never to visit the Equator. Aside from the obvious discomfort, no living creature can survive there longer than 20 minutes, excepting the equatorial snake, distantantly related to the Mamba, which is so deadly that merely looking at it can kill you. Don’t listen to your travel agent. Sure, you can book a SuperSaver to the equator but you won’t be alive to use the return portion of your ticket. So in addition to being dead, you’d just be losing money. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"QuestionImage\"<\/a>If January in Colorado is winter and it’s summer in Argentina, is it spring or fall at the Equator?

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