People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1893 — Temperatures of the Poles. [ARTICLE]

Temperatures of the Poles.

The southern hemisphere is colder than the northern hemisphere, or rather the summers are much colder and the winters a few degrees warmer, the reason being that at the North pole much of the ice which forms is held in by the land, while at the south pole, there being very little land, the ice forms and then floats toward the equator, chilling the continents it passes. The greater quantity of water in the southern hemisphere is a reason of its more equable climate, and the fact that the sun spends eight days more on the northern sid<J of the equator than he does on the routbern accounts for the average temperature in the south falling below thftt at the north.