Does the southern hemisphere have more extreme temperatures than the northern hemisphere?

Question

I know the earth is closest to the sun during the northern hemisphere's winter solstice. It is the northern hemisphere's "tilt" away from the sun that helps "produce" our winter. So, due to the earth's proximity to the sun and its "tilt," during our winter, does the southern hemisphere have more warmer summers. They are closest to the sun and tilted towards the sun.
Are winters in the southern hemisphere colder? They are then further away and tilted away.

Answer 1

Sass B is correct as far as he goes. But if you define "more extreme temperatures" as the probable variation at any one location it also is the northern hemisphere because of it's much greater land masses, which cause much more and sharper twists, turns and plunges of the jet streams that different air masses and storms follow. The fact that this has not been occurring much so far this winter, especially with the polar jet stream, has been responsible for the so far extremely warm weather in most of the northern hemisphere's current weather.

(I only know this answer because an article about it and this winter's so far freaky warm winter appeared in the "New York Times" just a few days ago!)

Answer 2

One thing to keep in mind is that the southern hemisphere has far more water than land in it than the northern hemisphere does. So that does have an impact on the weather - probably a greater impact on the weather than the tilt of the earth.

The coldest temperatures on earth are in Antarctica (southern)
The hottest temperatures on earth occur in the Sahara desert and parts of the Great Rift Valley - both are in the northern hemisphere. Also the second coldest place on earth, after Antarctica, is not the north pole but a certain region of Siberia (northern hemisphere). This part of Siberia (called Kolyma) is so cold because it is surrounded by mountains that block any moist air from coming in. Consequently it is a very dry place. Dryness brings coldness - Antarctica is technically a desert.

Since the Northern hemisphere contains both the hottest region of the world and the second coldest, I guess I would say it has more extreme temps than the Southern hemisphere. It has a larger range of temperatures.

Answer 3

Well that's not necessarily true. Look at Australia as an example. They are still ranging in the mid 20s Celsius even though it is winter there. The one thing that needs to be understood is there that as you get closer to Antarctica, there is less life. That is not true for the Northern Hemisphere as there is still Canada and Russia extremely close to the North Pole.

Answer 4

the extremes of temperature in the northern and southern hemispheres on earth are equal. the facts that you mention are not influential enough to change this.

Answer 5

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