2007-04-10 15:39:17 · 7 answers · asked by elijahorr101 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
About 93,000,000 miles (93 million).
2007-04-10 15:42:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The distance from Ohio to the sun is constantly changing, as our orbital path around the sun is an ellipse, the Earth is constantly spinning, and its tilt is changing.
It is not the change in distance that causes the cold, because if you look at all of the values, the change is almost negligible. So I really cannot tell you.
However, this is what I CAN tell you: What causes the cold is really the tilt. The sun's energy is released in photons, which travel in infiniately many paths directly from the sun's center, so the more perpendicular surface area you have, the more energy is transferred.
When Ohio is tilted away from the sun, its perpendicular surface area decreases greatly. The days get shorter, and the energy transferred to Ohio is lessened.
Quick experiment: Take a piece of paper. Hold it at arms length so you can see the entire thing, looking directly at the face of it. Now, tilt it back to about a 45 degree angle. The paper appears much smaller if you think of it in 2 dimensions.
In conjunction with the cold fronts and pressure fronts moving across the world, this is what is happening to cause winters to be cold and blizzards in April... Luckily I moved from Cleveland to North Carolina 2 weeks ago...
2007-04-10 22:50:09 · answer #2 · answered by andrew m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not that the Earth is farther from the Sun in Winter versus Summer(it's actualy closer). The Earth tilts on its axis so the angle of the sun hits the northern hemisphre differently and there are fewer daylight hours..
2007-04-10 22:48:04 · answer #3 · answered by Bambolero 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Closer than in the summer...
During the northern hemisphere's summer, the earth is farther from then the sun than in the winter; what increases the temps in the summer is more daylight (in hours) and more direct sunlight (in watts per square meter).
When the northern hemisphere adds 3 hours of dailight (at latitude 40N), and increases the watts per Meter^2, the result is higher temperature, because the ground receives more heating.
2007-04-10 22:44:37 · answer #4 · answered by edward_otto@sbcglobal.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, in the winter we are at the closest point to the Sun,
but axially pointed away from it.
2007-04-11 00:23:47 · answer #5 · answered by producer_vortex 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
147,000,000 km give or take a few thousand km
2007-04-11 05:56:42 · answer #6 · answered by Helmut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very far
2007-04-10 22:46:19 · answer #7 · answered by bec 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋