iF IT'S SUMMER HERE IS IT WINTER ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF EARTH?
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Summer and Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, i.e. for countries north of the equator are seasons that occur, along with Spring and Autumn (or Fall) as follows.\n\nSpring : March 21st to June 21st.\nSummer : June 22nd to September 21st.\nAutumn : September 22nd to December 21st\nWinter : December 22nd to March 20th.\n\n\nHowever the seasons are seen differently. Most people see Spring as starting in mid-March until mid June and Summer from then until September but Autumn until late October with Winter from then until the following march.\n\nIn the Southern hemisphere, south of the equator the seasons are reversed by six months so they would be\n\nAutumn : March 21st to June 21st\nWinter : June 22nd to September 21st\nSpring : September 22nd to December 21st\nSummer : December 22nd to March 20th.\n\nIn Australia Christmas Day is usually spent having a barbecue on the beach.\n\nThe reason for this difference is due to the Earth tilting as it orbits the Sun so that every six months the two poles become 'reversed' as far as closeness or proximity to the Sun is concerned.
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Both the northern and southern hemispheres have winter and summer solstaces, except there are in reverse order: i.e. when the north is having its winter solstace, the south is having its summer solstace and vice versa.\n\nSo which one do you mean? During the north's winter solstace, it is summer in South Africa; and vice versa.\n\nBe aware though, that the earth experiences its apogee from the sun near the time of the northern hemisphere's summer solstace and its perigee near the sun during the northern hemisphere's winter solstace.\n\nThis may easily contribute to the northern hemisphere's milder winters and summers than the southern hemisphere, and explains why the Antarctic is colder than the Arctic.
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It is in the northern hemisphere. In the northern half of the planet.
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This is simply a matter of perspective. From the South Pole, the earth's rotation is clockwise.
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The answer to your question is found in one fact: the earth's axis is inclined. If you imagine the earth's revolution about the sun as occuring on a huge flat disk, with the sun at the center of the disk and the earth at the rim, the axis is not perpendicular to the disk, but inclined from the perpendicular. The northern end of the axis, which sticks out of the earth at the north pole, always points to the same place in the sky as the earth goes about the sun. (Of course, the southern end of the axis always points to its own place in the sky, also.)\n\nYou can see from this that some of the time the northern end of the axis is tilted away from the sun (at the times that the southern end is tilted toward the sun) and some of the time the northern end of the axis is tilted toward the sun (when the southern end is tilted away). The northern end is most tilted away, and the southern end most tilted toward, on December 21. The northern end is most tilted toward the sun, and the southern end most tilted away, on June 21. That is why winter begins in the northern hemisphere and summer begins in the southern hemisphere on December 21. Summer begins in the northern hemisphere and winter begins in the southern hemisphere on June 21.\n\nAt other times the axis is internediary between most tilted toward and most tilted away.
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No.  The eccentricity (measure of how non-circular an orbit is) of Earth’s orbit is very small, about 0.0167, so the difference between the distance at apehelion and perihelion is only about 3%.  You can argue that it will affect the temperature, even slightly, but this would also increase cloud cover (water would evaporate) and consequently reduce the amount of sunlight received.  The temperature increase at perihelion is negligible.\n\nThe temperature difference between summer/winter is caused by the Earth’s 23 degree tilt.  The earth spins about this 23 degree tilt axis, resulting in the the Northern hemisphere facing more directly towards the sun for about ½ a year, and the Southern hemisphere facing more directly towards the sun for ½ a year.
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Earth rotates. Sun on one side.
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Afraid you got it backwards, Lee -- in winter Earth is closest to the sun, in summer we're farthest away. The seasons of Earth are not caused by our distance from the sun but instead by the 23-degree tilt of Earth on its axis.
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There is a common misconception that winter happens when earth is farthest from the sun.  Actually, earth's orbit is only slightly elliptical.  Temperatures vary because of the inclination of the earth.\n\nThe hours of daylight and darkness are not related to earth's orbit.  The hours change because the earth rotates about the north pole - south pole axis and this axis is tilted relative to the sun.  Check the link in sources for all the details!
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Because it's summer in the southern hemisphere
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The Sun is slightly closer in January at perihelion (147.5 million kilometers) and slightly farther away in July at aphelion (152.6 million kilometers).  Earth’s slightly elliptical orbit is not responsible for our seasons, however.\n\nEarth’s axis is tilted 23.5 degrees with respect to the plane of our orbit around the Sun.  Summer occurs when one’s hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun; winter when it’s tipped away.  Thus, seasons in Australia are reversed relative to North America—summer in Melbourne is winter in New York, and vice-versa.  (I’m sadly aware of that effect, since I’m travelling to Melbourne in a few months.)\n\n\nRyan Wyatt\nRose Center for Earth & Space\nNew York, New York
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Speaking strictly from the stand point of the alignment of the earth in relation to the sun, it starts on December 22nd.\n\nHowever, the meteorological winter begins on December 1.  The National Weather Service breaks down the seasons by months rather than using the solstices and equinoxes.\n\nIt goes like this:\n\nWinter\n---------\nDecember, January and February\n\nSpring\n--------\nMarch, April and May\n\nSummer\n-----------\nJune, July and August\n\nAutumn\n----------\nSeptember, October, November\n\nThese dates hold true for any location in the United States, not just Minnesota.  Acutally, these dates would hold true for anywhere north of the equator, but I am talking about the United States NWS...so I am limiting the points made to the US.
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The seasons are determined by the tilt of the Earth.  The Earth's rotation goes about an axis with the ends at the poles.  But that axis isn't parallel to the Earth's orbit.  It's slanted by about 20 degrees.  In the months of June, July and August, the North Pole is tilted toward the Sun.  That means that the Northern Hemisphere gets more sunlight more directly, which makes it have longer days and higher temperatures.  In December, January and February, the North Pole tilts away from the Sun, meaning it gets relatively little sunlight and that is less intense.  So it has short days and low temperatures.  The South Pole points in the opposite direction from the North, so the Southern Hemisphere has opposite seasons.\n\nWhat New York has to do with any of this I don't know.
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hey buddy! hello.\nwe all know that the earth rotates around the sun and also on its own axis. we also know that an imaginary line divides the earth into 2 equal halves. this line is the equator. the upper part is the north side and the lower is the south side. the axis of the earth does not run perpendicularly, but is tilted at an angle of about 16 degrees (if i remember it correctly)\n\nnow, as the earth rotates simultaneously on its axis and around the sun, it so happens that sun rays fall on one side that is either on north or on south side for continuous 6 months. this means that there is day for continuous 6 onths on one side and night on the other. so, it totaly depends that at what time of a year you r comparing both the poles temperature. if you compare the temperature of the 2 sides in the month of june, north pole will be hotter and south pole will be cooler. opposite happens during december and january. \nat a certain time it may also happen that temperatures of both the poles are same! this may happen at the time of transit. that is when sunshine is equal to both the poles!\n\nhope i have answered u.\n\ngood luck.
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The way the seasons work is that the axial tilt of the earth makes the sun directly above different places at different times of year.  On the summer solstice (June ~21, it is directly above the tropic of Cancer, at about 23 degrees of latitude north of the equator.  On the winter solstice (Dec ~21), it is above the tropic of capricorn, or ~23 degrees south of the equator.  This means that the latitude of the sun changes about 46 degrees over the year.  If you're north of the 23 tropic of cancer, that means that the height of the sun at noon can vary more than 45 degrees in the sky (and remember that 90 degrees is the difference between overhead and all the way down on the horizon; so 45 degrees is quite a lot.  However, if you're on the equator, the sun is never more than ~23 degrees from directly overhead at noon.  It still changes 45 degrees, just like everywhere else, but what matters in climate is not how much it moves, but how far the sun get from the zenith (directly overhead) at noon.  On the equator, it is 23 degrees north of the zenith in June, 23 degrees south of the zenith in December, but never more than 23 degrees away from the zenith at noon, no matter what time of year.  So the sun is almost always directly overhead at noon, no matter what the time of year; in other places, the difference in the height of the sun in the sky at noon (which correlates directly with how much light it shines down on you) is much bigger, so the changes from hot to cold are more extreme.\n\nAnother reason is this: in winter, the North Pole is pointing away from the sun, and doesn't see it for 6 months, while in summer, the north pole is pointed at the sun and it doesn't set for 6 months.  It's similar at the south pole, except in the southern hemisphere winter is in June-Sept and summer is from Dec-March.  But everywhere in between in a slight gradation of the pole, depending on how far away you are.  In Canada, up north, the days are very short in winter and very long in the summer.  In Mexico, there is less of a difference between the length of the day in summer and winter.  But on the equator, the day is always exactly 12 hours and the night is always exactly 12 hours.  Because it is half way between the poles, it will always be the intermediate of the two.  So since one of the major causes of the seasons is that a short day makes it cold and a long day makes it warm, the constant day length on the equator leads to less seasonal variation.
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The seasons are not based on the orbit of the sun.  It is based on the tilt of the earth, which remains constant during it's orbit around the sun.  During half the orbit the northern hemisphere gets more sunlight hence it's in summer.  During the other half of the orbit the southern hemisphere recieves more sunlight therefore it's in summer.  So technically, yes there are two winters and summers, just in the opposite hemispheres.
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NO, angle of the earth on it's axis limits sunlight for a few months. The days never warm up.