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Best position for a vegetable patch
"Frogleg" wrote in message ... | However, because it's darker there [ the North] in winter, | there'll be *more* sun in summer, no? ??? *More * than what? The south? If you mean this as it sounds, then no: Northern England is 'darker' than Southern England in winter. It's also darker in summer and any other time of year. It's darker because the sun is lower in the sky and so hits the ground more obliquely which means there is less energy from the sun per square metre. During our summer, we get more sun relative to the southern *hemisphere* because of the angle of the earth's axis relative to its orbit, but because Britain isn't near the equator, it all gets sunnier at the same time during summer and darker at the same time during winter. And because Northern Britain is further from the equator than Southern Britain, it's always darker up north :-( -- Martin & Anna Sykes ( Remove x's when replying ) http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm |
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