2006-11-13 14:55:46 · 6 answers · asked by lawman60621 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Well this might be a bad explanation 'cause I'm from Minnesota. Things are a lot different up here.
But here's something I learned in 8th grade.
Well the Earth makes one revolution around the sun in one Earth year. We'll just say that its plane is horizontal to the Sun. at some point the earth is closer to the sun and then farther from it.
Not really important but here's the major thing.
The earth rotates on its axis. This axis to us common humans is depicted as VERTICAL although it is not. It is at a slight slant and if I can remember... that slant is about... 23.7 degrees or 27.3 degrees. But anyways, the earth is slant that much so part of the year, the earth's northern hemisphere is pointed towards the sun, thus Minnesota's late spring/early summer climate. As the year goes on, the top part of the axis points away from the sun so the bottom of the axis is point to the sun. Now the southern hemisphere gets its summer. Right now, the northern hemisphere is pointed away from the sun so we are almost in complete darkness (but the sun's light is reflected into our earth's atmosphere, so we still have light in the morning, just at a different time). Therefore, in the southern hemisphere it is their brightest time of the year.
Hope that helps.
~Ninth grader (tee hee)
2006-11-13 15:13:04 · answer #1 · answered by T.VO 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he's right
Well this might be a bad explanation 'cause I'm from Minnesota. Things are a lot different up here.
But here's something I learned in 8th grade.
Well the Earth makes one revolution around the sun in one Earth year. We'll just say that its plane is horizontal to the Sun. at some point the earth is closer to the sun and then farther from it.
Not really important but here's the major thing.
The earth rotates on its axis. This axis to us common humans is depicted as VERTICAL although it is not. It is at a slight slant and if I can remember... that slant is about... 23.7 degrees or 27.3 degrees. But anyways, the earth is slant that much so part of the year, the earth's northern hemisphere is pointed towards the sun, thus Minnesota's late spring/early summer climate. As the year goes on, the top part of the axis points away from the sun so the bottom of the axis is point to the sun. Now the southern hemisphere gets its summer. Right now, the northern hemisphere is pointed away from the sun so we are almost in complete darkness (but the sun's light is reflected into our earth's atmosphere, so we still have light in the morning, just at a different time). Therefore, in the southern hemisphere it is their brightest time of the year.
Hope that helps.
~Ninth grader (tee hee)
2006-11-14 17:02:48 · answer #2 · answered by gojets53 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Umm... 1) It's getting close to winter, and 2) Daylight's Savings Time! We go back one hour so it gets darker earlier.
2006-11-13 22:58:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
rotation and relative angle of earth axis, compared to the sun,.
2006-11-13 22:58:05 · answer #4 · answered by nobody722 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's fall? and soon to be winter?
Could that possibly be the case?
2006-11-13 22:57:31 · answer #5 · answered by arbiter007 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time and tide wait for no man...
It's not, it's getting lighter and warmer!!!
(I dunno, you people who persist in holding winter at Christmas time!...)
2006-11-13 23:22:38 · answer #6 · answered by ~jve~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋