EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Complete answer: No matter what time of the year it is, the northern and the southern hemisphere will always experience a season opposite to the other. Therefore, if the northern hemisphere has the summer season, then the southern hemisphere will experience the winter season.

Detailed explanation-2: -The seasons experienced by the northern and southern hemisphere always differ by six months – when it is summer in the northern hemisphere, it is winter in the southern hemisphere, and so on.

Detailed explanation-3: -Seasons are caused by the fact that the Earth is tilted on its axis by 23.5°. The tilt’s orientation with respect to space does not change during the year; thus, the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun in June and away from the sun in December, as illustrated in the graphic below.

Detailed explanation-4: -The earth’s spin axis is tilted with respect to its orbital plane. This is what causes the seasons. When the earth’s axis points towards the sun, it is summer for that hemisphere. When the earth’s axis points away, winter can be expected.

Detailed explanation-5: -The hemisphere tilted toward the sun also has more hours of daylight than the hemisphere that is tilted away from the sun. The combination of more direct rays of sunlight and more hours of daylight causes the hemisphere tilted toward the sun to receive more solar radiation and to have warmer temperatures.