May 25, 2005. Western Hemisphere Satellite. What a mess. The equator is relatively unchanged from 2 days ago. EXCEPT now the 'heat conduit' between Africa and South America is broken while the Antarctica Vortex picks up the STAGNANT heat budget since the aire masse of the equator has moved north. The Amazon Rain Forest is no longer sharing heat budgets at the equator but dumping it into the ice of the South Pole TODAY.