Although the north pole is tilted toward the sun in the summer, its temperatures are still very cold?

Answer 1

The reason the polar regions are generally colder than the tropics is because of the angle in which the sunlight hits the earth.

Near the tropics the sun rays hit the earth closer to perpendicular to the surface than at the polar regions.

This simple experiment, which you can replicate at home, will show you what happens:

Take a common flashlight, turn it on and hold it above a table, pointing straight down. You will see a nice, round circle of light on the table.

Now take the flashlight and tilt it so the beam hits the table at a sharp angle. Now you see the same beam (Same amount of light) is spread over a large oval area.

Same with the sunlight! A shaft of solar radiation that heats a small area near the tropics, is spread over a larger area near the poles. And since you get less solar radiation per unit area near the poles, it is colder there.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The north pole does warm up in the summer, but it's covered with a thick layer of ice. Ice reflects a lot of light, which also means that it absorbs little of the sun's radiation.

Answer 3

Yes, it is indeed. It point toward the north star and so it is still chilly.

Answer 4

yeah, mysterious ey !

Answer 5

that is not a question, it's a statement