Why does daylight get shorter in the winter?

Answer 1

In the Northern Hemisphere daylight gets shorter in the winter. This is because the earth is tilted and in winter the sun takes a shorter amount of time for it to cross the sky resulting in shorter days. In summer, the earth is tilted more towards the sun and the path for it to cross is longer.

Answer 2

There are fewer hours of sunlight during the winter because of were the Sun is situated. The sunlight cannot be distributed evenly everywhere at all times because of the Earth's shape, how it spins on it's axis and where it is on it's path around the Sun.

Answer 3

THE DAYS ARE SHORTER IN WINTER

This is because of the tilt of the EARTH and the rotation of the earth.

the earth receives slanting as well as vertical rays. The slanting rays spread over a large area while the vertical rays concentrate on one area. In summer when the earth tilts about its revolution, the part facing the sun receives a lot if sunlight for a long time. that is why the days are longer in summer. the part which is not facing the sun, on turning to the sun has short days. that is why days are short in winter.

Answer 4

The earth is a large rotating ball, a feature of this is that its axis of rotation will remain parallel throughout its orbit. Say your in the northern hemisphere in england, tilted toward the sun ( longest day), now orbit around the sun 6 months and the axis remains parallel so now your at full tilt away from the sun (shortest day).

Answer 5

There are four dates that are of significance to this question. For the northern hemisphere the order they are in is as follows:

The Winter Solstice (usually December 21st-22nd); (Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.)

The Vernal Equinox (usually March 20th); (Autumnal Equinox in the southern hemisphere.)

The Summer Solstice (usually June 21st); (Winter Solstice in the southern hemisphere.)

The Autumnal Equinox (usually September 22nd). (Vernal Equinox in the southern hemisphere.)

The Winter Solstice - This is the day of the year that has the least amount of sunlight in a 24-hour period. This is the first day of Winter. From this day onward the amount of daylight in a 24-hour period increases by an amount of four minutes per day.

Three months later, at the Vernal Equinox, the period of daylight and the period of darkness within a 24-hour period is equal. (Hence the name "equinox.") This is the first day of Spring. The period of daylight during a 24-hour period continues to increase by four minutes per day until . . .

Three months later the Summer Solstice is reached and this day of the year has the longest period of daylight in a 24-hour period. This is the first day of Summer. From this day onward the amount of daylight in a 24-hour period decreases by an amount of four minutes per day.

Three months later, at the Autumnal Equinox, the period of daylight and the period of darkness within a 24-hour period is again equal (Equinox.) This is the first day of Autumn (also called Fall.) The period of daylight during a 24-hour period continues to decrease by four minutes per day until the day with the shortest period of daylight in a 24-hour period, the Winter Solstice, is reached again and the cycle begins to repeat.

This shows the reason why in Summer the days begin to get shorter. The very first day of Summer is the longest "day" of the year and they can only get shorter as the Summer progresses.

Daylight Savings has nothing to do with the period of daylight getting longer. All it does is alter the time of day that people are usually awake so that it only seems like there are more hours of daylight. The length of daylight only increases or decreases by four minutes per day, ever.

And remember that this only applies to the northern hemisphere. It is the exact opposite in the southern hemisphere; when the northern days get shorter the southern days get longer by those same four minutes per day.

Answer 6

The amount of sunlight in the winter is shorter because the path of the sun is lower on the horizon and shorter in length.

Answer 7

It is because the hemisphere that you are on is tilted away from the sun.

Answer 8

Because the clocks are not set back for daylight savings. And winter comes before summer so the time is normal

Answer 9

Because it is autumn