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Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle
the reason the days are colder after the equinox rather than before is due to snow cover. When there is a blanket of white snow on the ground it is highly reflective of the sun's radiation so much of the strengthening sunlight is reflected back into space, meaning that while the total input of solar radiation is higher, when you subtract from that the radiation lost to space, the net input of radiation into warming the surface of the Earth is much lower than in the months preceding the equinox when there is little or no snow.
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How absolutely intriguing,
Fordim. This must be one definition of the word 'snow'--thermal insulator--that the Inuit missed.
