Why does the winter last foever and the summer is over in the blink of a eye?
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Summer is fun and funny things end fast
198992
I, too, prefer winter over summer.\n\nI figure that in the winter, I can put on more and more layers to stay warm.    But...in the summer, when it's HOT...I can be practically naked, sitting in a pool, and drinking a cold drink and STILL be hot.
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Seasons reasons \nUnless you live near the Earth's equator, you have no doubt noticed that the weather changes during the year: it is hotter during the Summer, colder in Winter, and somewhere in between during Spring and Fall. These are the seasons, a regular change in temperature, that repeat themselves every year, more or less regularly. \n\nWhat causes these changes? The Sun is our main source of heat, and since these changes are the same every year, it surely has something to do with the movement of the Earth around the Sun. If we get closer to a fire, we get hotter. Could it be then that the Earth gets closer to the Sun during Summer, and farther during Winter?  This idea seems at first to have some merit, until we remember that the seasons get reversed when we cross the equator: when it is Summer in the northern hemisphere, it is Winter in the southern one, and vice versa. And surely Argentina is at the same distance from the Sun as the USA! \n\nBesides, that the Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a circle, so that at some times the Earth is closer to the Sun than at others; but this ellipse is very nearly a circle, and the relatively small differences in distance to the Sun cannot account for the changes in temperature. And to make things worse, the Earth is closer to the Sun during the northern hemisphere Winter! \n\nWhat, then, is, the cause of the seasons? \n\n\n\nIn the above animation, you can see the Earth during one full year (the animation then starts over again), as you would if you looked straight at it from the Sun. As you can see, the part of the Earth that is directly facing the sun changes with the time of the year. It is the northern half for a while, then moves south of the equator, only to move back to the north again. \n\nWhat causes this? The Earth rotates around an imaginary line passing through the poles, called the axis. This line forms an angle (called the tilt) of 23.4° with the perpendicular to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. \n\n\n\n\nAs the Earth moves around the Sun, this axis stays always pointing in the same direction. This means that, during part of the year, the northern part of the Earth will lean more directly against the sun, and during other parts the southern part will. \n\n What has this to do with temperature? Well, when the northern hemisphere is leaning away from the sun, the rays coming from it hit this part of the Earth at a smaller angle than on other parts of the world. This means that the same amount of light is distributed over a larger surface, and therefore these places receive less heat than the others. The southern hemisphere is experiencing Summer, the northern hemisphere Winter. In half a year, the situation reverses, and it is now Winter in the southern hemisphere since that part of the earth is now leaning away from the sun. \n\nThe seasons are then the result of this tilt of the Earth's axis. If the tilt of the Earth's axis was 0° there would be no difference in how the rays from the sun hit its different regions, and there would be no seasons. \n\nNot all planets have the same kind of tilt as the Earth has: Uranus, for example, has a tilt of almost 98°. Its axis, then, lies almost on the plane of its orbit, and a day there lasts about as much as one year on Uranus: about 84 Earth-years.
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Why, aren't they two of the many regions that remain on "standard time" year-round? \n\nIt's controversial, but some people say this approach is the way of the future.
221957
It has always seemed odd to me to have daylight savings time in the summer when the days are already naturally longer.  It is logical to me to at least try using it in the winter or not at all.
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I like summer because of the weather and the fact that I don't have school. But I prefer winter over summer.
783565
Relax.  It won't come till winter.
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As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how the trees "know" to begin getting ready for winter.\n\nDuring winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. The trees will rest, and live off the food they stored during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories. The green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. As the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange colors. Small amounts of these colors have been in the leaves all along. We just can't see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll.\n\nThe bright reds and purples we see in leaves are made mostly in the fall. In some trees, like maples, glucose is trapped in the leaves after photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn cause the leaves turn this glucose into a red color. The brown color of trees like oaks is made from wastes left in the leaves.\n\nIt is the combination of all these things that make the beautiful colors we enjoy in the fall.
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I think because different parts of the country still have snow and ice, while others are in the real spring and summer...\nIt just depends on where you live...
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In the Northern hemisphere, the "Winter" solstice is on December 21. It is the "Summer solstice that occurs on June 21st. In the southern hemisphere, the opposite is true.\nThe change in the amount of daylight is very small for the first few weeks, but as we approach the next solstice the change increases up to about 9 minutes a day.
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When they start has to do with the length of days.  The first day of Summer is the longest (by daylight) day of the year.  Winter is the shortest.  Fall and Spring are when the two lengths are equal.
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You did meant to say "months" twice, right?  Because moths and months are slightly different things.\n\nAnyway, the difference is caused by how close the earth is to the sun (during its orbit around the sun.)  When the earth spins each day, it turns from day to night because the earth is facing the sun for half of the turn (roughly) and facing away for the other half (causing day and night.)  But depending on the orbit, the sun hits the earth differently.\n\nThe sun in fall and winter is more direct, I mean, like it hits you in the face.  It's, um, slanted differently.  But the light is weaker since the part of the earth that's having cold weather is tilted further from the sun.  Did I mention that the earth is tilted?  So that way, one hemisphere is tilted closer to the sun during one side of the orbit, and the other hemisphere gets the seasons during the opposite time of year (other side of the orbit.)  \n\nOK, like imagine that this percent mark % represents the northern and southern hemispheres.  Imagine that the % mark is traveling in a circle around a central sphere.  So on one side of the circle, the upper 0 is tilted toward the sun (spring and summer) and the lower 0 is on the other side of the tilted line and it's further from the sun.  But when the % gets to the other side of the circle, the *upper* 0 is on the far side of the tilted line and then the *lower* 0 is closer to the sun.  Which gives you seasons.\n\nI guess it gets lighter and darker faster because there's less clouds in fall and winter (it's colder, so there's less smog and haze and cloud cover in general) so dawn and dusk seem to happen faster.  Plus, there's less light and heat in general.  \n\nI hope that made sense.  The % thing makes sense to me, but if it doesn't, then make yourself a 3D model and see if it makes sense.
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The axis of the Earth and Sun are not paralel. In some point, as the Earth moves around the Sun, the north pole is far away from the sun, and so, it gets less heat from it. This is winter. The oposite occur to the south pole (summer). The intermediate situation is called autumn and spring.
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The tilt of the earth on its axis. When it is tiled one way, the sun hits more directly. When it is tilted the other way, it is more spread out.\n\nAgainst what you may think, the earth is actually closer to the sun in the winter than in the summer.
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It's called Summertime.
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in winter  the earth is far away from the sun as  compared to summer so we receive less heat and we feel cold in winters
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That is a fantastic question.\nIt is a matter of humidity. The cold weather\nthat allows snow means the air is not humid\nenough to allow an electric current to travel\n(along the water vapor in the air) over the differently\ncharged clouds and sky. People who say temp are\nsort of right, but it is the low temp that leads to the low\nhumidity that causes the "problem".\n\nThanks for asking such a good question.