If the earth suddenly changed its degree of tilt from 23.5 to 50 what would happen to your seasons?

Answer 1

-- The seasons would be somewhat more extreme ... colder colds and hotter hots
everywhere.

-- The 'caps' around the north and south poles, where it's possible for the sun
to stay up or down for more than 24 hours, would extend out 28.5 degrees
from each pole, instead of only 23.5 degrees.

-- The tropical 'belt' around the Earth's middle, comprising every place on Earth
where the sun is directly overhead twice a year, would be 57 degrees wide,
instead of only 47 degrees.

-- The variations in the length of day and night throughout the year would be
greater everywhere ... the longest would be longer and the shortest would be
shorter.

Answer 2

If the Earth's tilt were at 50o the arctic Circle would be at 40o (somewhat south of the present American/Canadian border. Everything north of that would have at least one sunless day a year and in general have polar conditions for a large paty of the year. During the summer the same condition would cause the area north of that to line to have continuous sunlight for at least one day a year.

Between the two extremes (continous night or continuous day the ecology of the regions would alter dramatically with extreme winter and summer conditions.

Answer 3

Then the seasons would be much more pronounced than they currently are. Intelligent life might not be possible, and it would certainly be much different, of the Earth's axial tilt were substantially different than it is.

Answer 4

Assuming the Earth remained relatively constant at an axial tilt of 38.5 degrees,

there would probably be little change in the seasons. The main difference would

come in what parts of the Earth would experience which array of seasons. There

would be changes in the severity of the seasons for the poles, as they would be

closer to the Sun in summer than they are now, and farther away in winter.

Weather would change significantly, though, as the ocean would be warmed and

cooled in different places; this would result in different ocean currents, which play

an important role in the weather patterns across the planet. The differing patterns

in warming and cooling at the poles may also impact wind patterns and

temperatures of the rest of the planet. The actual seasons themselves, however,

would remain intact.

The big changes would come should the Earth begin to wobble much more noticeably

than it does now. This would throw the consistency of the seasons into chaos,

the severity of which would depend on how much the tilt varied in a given year.

(Sounds convincing, but full disclosure prompts us to go back to the first paragraph

and expunge the implication that the distance of the poles from the sun has any

connection to the seasons. If it did, then the present situation could not exist,

wherein in early January, with the Earth at its closest to the sun, the north is

in Winter, whereas in early July, with the Earth at its farthest distance from the

sun, the north is in Summer. Otherwise, convincing. Misleading, but convincing.)

Answer 5

The seasons would intensify, and the Summer would be hotter, and the Winter be colder. This would make for a completely different environment, since the change would be larger between seasons. Just this tiny change would probably make thousands of animals extinct. It would change farming. It would make weather more intense. If this happened suddenly it would probably be cataclysmic.

Answer 6

Difficult to know for sure, but probably not much. Seasons would be a little more extreme, with summers warmer and winters colder at high latitudes, but it would probably not affect the tropics or temperate zones all that much.

Answer 7

They would be more extreme: winters would be colder and summers would be hotter. The temperate zones would contract, and the polar and tropical zones would expand.

Answer 8

They would be exaggerated, but be the same length.

Answer 9

It would receive more direct Sun in the summer.

Answer 10

They'd be more extreme. Summers would be hotter and winters would be colder.