THE WINTER SEASON IS AWESOME , REALLY AWESOME..........

COLD EVERYWHERE
The tilt of the Earth's axis relative to its orbital plane plays a big role in t
he weather. The Earth is tilted at an angle of 23.44 to the plane of its orbit, a
nd this causes different latitudes on the Earth to directly face the Sun as the
Earth moves through its orbit. It is this variation that primarily brings about
the seasons. When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphe
re faces the Sun more directly and thus experiences warmer temperatures than the
Northern Hemisphere. Conversely, winter in the Southern Hemisphere occurs when
the Northern Hemisphere is tilted more toward the Sun. From the perspective of a
n observer on the Earth, the winter Sun has a lower maximum altitude in the sky
than the summer Sun.
During winter in either hemisphere, the lower altitude of the Sun causes the sun
light to hit that hemisphere at an oblique angle. In regions experiencing winter
, the same amount of solar radiation is spread out over a larger area. This effe
ct is compounded by the larger distance that the light must travel through the a
tmosphere, allowing the atmosphere to dissipate more heat. Compared with these e
ffects, the changes in the distance of the earth from the sun are negligible.
The manifestation of the meteorological winter (freezing temperatures) in the no
rtherly snow prone parallels is highly variable depending on elevation, position v
ersus marine winds and the amount of precipitation. A case of point is in Canada
which is a country normally associated with its tough winters. Winnipeg on the
Great Plains at a relative distance from large bodies of water has a January hig
h of -11.3 C (11.7 F) and a low of -21.4 C (-6.5 F).[2] In comparison, Vancouver on
the coast with a marine influence from moderating Pacific winds has a January lo
w of 1.4 C (34.5 F) with days well above freezing at 6.9 C (44.4 F).[3]
Both areas are on the 49th parallel north and in the same western half of the c
ontinent. A similar effect,
although with less extreme differentials
, is found in Europe where in spite of the northerly latitude of the islands
, the British Isles has not a single non-mountain weather station with a below-f
reezing mean temperature.