How are seasons in Antarctica different from seasons on other parts of Earth?

Answer 1

Seasons are not dramatically different, except that the amount of sunlight differs dramatically from summer to winter. Temperatures on the continent are consistently too cold to support life or any kind of food chain. Since no substantive vegetation grows there, there is no visible difference in the seasons.

Answer 2

The seasons in Antarctica start and end on the same days as do the seasons all over the earth.

However, because Antarctica is in the Southern Hemisphere, winter in Antarctica occurs at the same time that summer occurs in the northern hemisphere. Spring and fall are also opposing in the different hemispheres.

What else is different in Antarctica -- and the Arctic -- is that during winter there can be many months without a sunrise. In summer, many months go by without a sunset. Again, this phenomenon is exactly opposite in the Arctic, because the seasons are in opposition on opposite ends of the earth.

Answer 3

'Weather' in Antarctica has to do with wind, ice particles and light.

Katabatic winds blow constantly, often at blizzard rates. This is true all year.

With so little humidity -- average about five percent across the continent, winds pick up ice crystals and they swirl about, especially when there is no sunlight. This is also true all year.

Because Antarctica is polar, the geography south of 66 degrees S experiences at least one 24-hour period of no sunrise/ sunset. At the South Pole, this period is six months. Generally, during summer, the sun doesn't set and during winter, the sun does not rise.

What is constant is the cold. Antarctica is the highest, driest, coldest, windiest, darkest and iciest continent on earth. It's weather is considered extreme on all levels all year.