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An ozone hole forms when there is no UV-C from the Sun to replace the decay of ozone (both natural and man-caused). This occurs when the pole is having winter.

Antarctica's hole (South pole) is larger than the arctic hole (North pole), because the Earth's magnetic field directs positive charges from the solar wind to it, which is primarily hydrogen, and hydrogen oxidizes to water vapor, which decays ozone. The north pole gets almost exclusively electrons, which tend to make a bit more ozone, although indirectly.

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