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How do the lengths of day light hours and nighttime hours everywhere on earth compare on an equinox?
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∙ 11y ago
On a solstice, there are the exact same amount of daylight hours and night hours. However on an equinox, there are either more daylight hours or night hours depending what equinox it is (summer or winter).
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 9y agoAs the earth rotates around the sun, it tilts back and forth on its axis
Winter time the tilt is greater and the days are shorter
Summer the tilt is less and the days are longer
Fall and spring are transitional seasons
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Nearly but not quite. The axial tilt relative to the Sun does change, but over many thousands if not millions of years, not annually. From our point of view it is constant.
The Earth could be considered as moving on the surface of an imaginary cone whose vertex is the point in Space to which the extended line o fits axis would reach all year round. Consequently the planet is always leaning toward or away from the Sun, and it is this that gives the alternating North-South Hemisphere seasons.
If the tilt was less, the Summer daylights would be shorter and the Winter daylights longer. If the tilt was 0º, i.e. the axis was perpendicular to the plane of its orbit, there would be no seasonal changes and sunrise and sunset would always be 12 hours apart.
Transitional seasons? Yes - you could call them that. The change is a sine function so the daily change in dawn and dusk accelerate and decelerates regularly, hence people saying "The nights are drawing in / out now" when the rate of change is higher so noticeable.
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∙ 11y agoSummer solstice the days in the northern hemisphere are longest and the nights are shortest. But in the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere the days are shortest and the nights are longest.
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∙ 11y agoThe hours are different than usual, because the hours are equal. There are about 12 hours of daylight & about 12 hours of darkness everywhere on Earth.
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In the Southern Hemisphere when are the day lengths less than 12 hours but increasing?
The day lengths in the southern hemisphere begin to increase between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox, same as in the Northern Hemisphere, but the time for the seasons is reversed. Winter solstice in the southern hemisphere falls on June 21 or 22 each year, and the vernal equinox is around 21 or 22 September.
In the northern hemisperethe sun reaches what equinox on March 20 or 21?
At the equinox day and night are of the same length all over the world because the Sun is in the plane of the Earth's equator, and that happens on March 21 and September 22 each year. At other times the Sun is above or below the Equator, and day and night have unequal lengths.
Why length of day and night is same in spring and autumn?
At the equinoxes, day and night are approximately the same length. The equinoxes are the beginning of Spring (around March 21 in the northern hemisphere), and the beginning of Autumn (around September 23 in the northern hemisphere). I said "approximately" because day and night are not exactly equal, due to the diameter of the Sun, and refraction in the atmosphere. dummyITS EXUINOX
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