Can someone just walk me through how it might be summer in Australia at the moment.
I feel like I understand the premise but I’m amazed I have only discovered this recently.
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The season’s are caused by the Earth being tilted around it’s axis [like this](https://images.theconversation.com/files/438275/original/file-20211217-23072-g37bxk.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=568&fit=crop&dpr=2). When one hemisphere of the Earth is tilted towards the sun, it gets more sunlight and has more daylight during a day, and thus is warmer and has . This is summer. When that hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, it gets less direct sunlight and has less daylight during a day, which means its colder.
The northern and southern hemispheres are opposite each other, so when one is tilted towards the sun, the other *must, as a consequence,* be tilted away. Right now, the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, which makes it winter in the northern hemisphere. This means that the southern hemisphere *has to* be tilted towards the sun, making it summer in the southern hemisphere.
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