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Autumn
Posted Oct 9, 2000
Autumn is just starting to fall here in central New Jersey. The chill in the air is appropriately chilly, foretelling some change or other, the sky blue with fleecy clouds, and autumn sunshine falling less strongly in the northern hemisphere because after all it is fall and past the summer solstice and so the sun is illuminating those places south of the equator more strongly.
It's interesting to note that the sunlight striking the earth in Winter (i.e. the winter of the northern latitudes, which is the Summer of Down Under)is more intense that that in June, July and August, due to the Earth in its orbit being closer to the sun in December January & february.
An exercise for the reader: So why aren't the Northern winters warmer than the summers?
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