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Geography person (me) wondering?

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As you know the world is divided into 2. North and South Hemisphere. And the poles (North and South) are cold and white and full of snow and ice. Why is it that the Northern hemisphere has snow during Winter (such as places in America, Russia, Scandivania, UK....), but in the Southern Hemisphere, there is no snow (there may be places that have snow but just a few places like the snowy mountains in Australia?

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  1. The earth's axis of rotation wobbles.  In the summer, it is more radiant on the northern hemisphere and in the winter, more so in the southern hemisphere.  Most of the places in the south are very dry.  There are far more continental masses in the north.   They surround the Artic.


  2. Land mass has a lot to do with weather. If you watch where hurricanes come from you be surprised they start in Africa. They come across to the US. Same with your Question Smaller land masses less snow.

  3. Actually your question encompasses a lot of variables.

    1 look at a map. the land masses in the north are much larger than the south. The northern countries are also much closer to the North pole than the southern countries are to the south.

    2 There is much more frozen precipitation in Antarctica than in the arctic. It's just farther south.

    3 The weather patterns (the humidity bearing atmosphere) are very different

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