Are the places near the equator warm why or why not?

Answer 1

Although the insolation is much greater at the equator than in higher latitudes, owing to the adiabatic cooling of air in the troposphere as it rises, high altitudes at any latitude are much cooler than low elevations. As one ascends a mountain the temperature falls by about 1˚C every 150 metres. At the equator, temperatures average around 27˚C or 80˚F at sea level, so at 3,000 metres or 9,800 feet, a pattern of nightly freezes followed by a strong daily thaw all year round emerges due to the combination of thin chilled air and extremely high solar radiation. At 4,500 metres or 14,700 feet, the average temperature will reach freezing even at the equator, and because of the lack of seasonal variation in temperature snow can be maintained despite the low efficiency of convective rainfall in cool temperatures.

The Equatorial Andes, Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya and the Rwenzoris in East Africa and the New Guinea Highlands all reach these altitudes near the equator. Several other ranges reach the equatorial "frost line" such as the Crocker Range in Borneo, Mount Cameroon in Central Africa and numerous mountains in Java and Sumatra.

It must be noted that the snow line at the equator is by no means the highest in the world. Slightly longer days and stable air at the Tropics means that more snow can be melted and less will fall. Even in the humid Himalayas the snow line is around 5,500 to 5,600 metres and in the Desert Andes it is as high as 6,500 metres. As far from the equator as the Uinta Mountains in Utah at 43˚N, the permanent snow line remains as high as at the equator due to low precipitation and long, hot summer days.

Answer 2

Places near the equator are very warm because it stays close to the sun all year round. The earth rotates on its axis of 23.5 degrees, that is why we experience seasons, but as we get closer to the equator, the earth doesn't rotate as much as it does at the north or south pole. Thus it stays generally close to the sun all year round.