The Doldrums is a zone near the equator where rising hot air creates calms and variable winds together with thunderstorms.
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on February 21, 2007
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The Doldrums is the opposite - it is an area of 'relatively' cool, stable decending air a feature of which is low rainfall and shallow pressure gradient (low winds). It is a reverse Hadley cell in effect, where cold air from the Poles meets with displaced air from the equator and is forced to decend at roughly mid-latitudes (+- the Tropics). It was called the Doldrums cos nuffink ever happens there Weather-wise.