How many hours is the sun in the sky?

Question

how does the sunlight stike the ground(direct / at an angle)

Answer 1

Wow.  Jon's quick!

Answer 2

I'm not sure how to answer this. Obviously, the sun strikes the ground directly when it's directly over that point of the Earth. Otherwise, it strikes at varying angles depending on it's relative position to a point on Earth. Also, the sun will sink behind the horizon and still be seen in the sky for a few minutes because sunlight is reflected back down at Earth over the horizon due to refraction off of Earth's atmosphere

Answer 3

How many hours is the sun in the sky?

Well, the sun is always in the sky :)  How many hours it is visible depends on the location of the viewer, and the time of year.  At the North pole, it will be in the sky 0 hours on 21 December, and 24 hours on 21 June, for instance.  At the equator, close to 12 hours per day year round.

There are latitude lines called the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, which are about 22.5 degrees North and South of the equator.  If you are not between these lines, the sun will always strike at an angle.  If you are on or between these lines, there are moments when it is directly overhead, but it is still at an angle (albeit a small one) most of the time.

Answer 4

all of them, did u think it went somewhere else.

angle is the angle it is from earth at that moment

Answer 5

Sounded like a trick question at first: the sun is in the sky somewhere 24 hours a day (not including clouds, but you didn't say visible). The sun strikes the earth directly, at a 90 degree angle somewhere every day. At summer and winter solstice, that place is the equator. At latitudes above or below that point, the sun strikes the earth at an angle. The greater the angle, the less hot it is (combined with fewer daylight hours and the slightly longer distance between the sun and the point it strikes accounts for the cooler climates. You've seen globes of the earth showing it tilted on it's axis. As the axis tilts toward or away from the sun through the year, changes the point at which the sun is hitting the earth directly.  The most direct point is summer, like we are in the Northern Hemisphere now. Conversely, the Southern Hemisphere is getting the sun's rays at the greatest angle now, and so it's winter there.