PRECIPITATION (Rain, snow, hail, fog) Because latitudes near the equator are warmer, procipitation is usuatly in the torm of rain. The wetrest places on Earth are within only 25° of the equator. Near the poles, lemperatures are low, so preclpitation is in the form of snow. Tho deop layors of snow in Antarctica have taken millions of years to accumulate. The middle latitudes are thkely to have rain in summer and some snow in winter
DISTANCE FROM THE SEA: Places far from the sea have more extreme temperatures than places at or near the sea This means that inland places have hotter summers and colder winters than coastal places do There are four reasons for land surfaces being hotter than sea surtaces in summer 1 Land needs only half as much heat to raise its temperature by 1° as the same mass of water. (Therefore land gets hotter during the day than the water does.) 2 Water is transparent, so the sun's heat rays