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Old 06-12-2009, 01:01 PM
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That's a very interesting thread. I would have always assumed the tropics were the worst for skies as it's humid and very rainy. A friend from Kuala Lumpur told me you can set your watch to 4:00pm every day when rains falls down in buckets before sunset later on. It is very humid. Sounds like the lack of jet stream makes up for it though in a big way.
The problem is haze i.e. transparency, not actual atmospheric seeing. Haze is a problem in the tropics due to humidity and relatively stagnant air, unlike here in the south where humidity is low and there is more wind to disperse particulate matter. That same stagnant still air however is creating good seeing.
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