This is why the northern hemisphere is preferable to the southern, milder seasons.
I was told January 3rd in 2007...
Quick, somebody call Al Gore....
I’ve been feeling like Hellions were all around.
On January 20th, the government will be closer to Uranus than ever in history...
Still cold here in Louisiana. 8>)
The Solar Year, or the time between noon on the longest days (The Summer Solstice ) is 365.24219 days. The time it takes for Earth to orbit the Sun is 365.256363004 days. The difference is because of the precession of the equinoxes.
The image above shows the point on the Celestial Sphere where the stars appear to rotate based on the years between the year 2000 and year predicted. The cycle repeats approximately every 26000 years.
Look up Milankovitch cycles. The reason why we are in the mmidsdle of a 20,000 year interglacial is that we are in a period of the Milankovitch cycle with suffficient rotational axis tilt, where the orbital perihelion points the southern oceans at the sun during their summers. Southern oceans absorb far more heat than northern continents.
Must be why we warmed up to -5 here in Fairbanks!
Then why isn’t it warmer?
:-)
Although it explains why it is so windy;
;-)
(Wind From the Sun / Sunjammer was one of my favorite Arthur C. Clarke stories)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunjammer
FTA: closer to the sun than on any other day of the year
How do we know we won’t fall into the Sun and burn up?