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Why Is It Cold in Winter?

In winter the heat rays of the sun strike at our part of the earth at the angle at which you stick the pin into the orange when you wish to make it travel through the most peeling. In winter the rays strike the earth at such an angle that a great deal of the heat is lost in travelling through the air, because they have to come through so much more of the air. Of course, the sun’s rays strike some part of the earth straight down through the peeling of air at all times, and at the equator this occurs all the year round, so it is always summer there, while at the North and South Poles the rays always strike the earth at the greatest possible angle, and it is always very cold winter there. In between, when it is neither hot nor cold, we have spring and fall, due to the fact that the rays come down at an angle, but not so great an angle.

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