ITCZ

• The ITCZ is an area of low pressure where the trade winds meet.
• Tropical maritime and tropical continental air masses converge causing warm air to rise, cool and condense creating clouds, bringing rain.
• The ITCZ follows the overhead sun so in the summer, it moves north.
• When it moves north, it drags tropical maritime air with it, bringing warm and wet weather from the Atlantic Ocean to all areas south of the ITCZ.
• In winter, the ITCZ follows the sun south. When it moves south, it drags the tropical continental air with it, bringing hot-very hot and dry weather from the Sahara Desert to all areas north of the ITCZ.