How to Use northern hemisphere in a Sentence

northern hemisphere

noun
  • Last summer was the hottest the northern hemisphere has seen in 2,000 years, and this year is already predicted to break records again.
    Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Spring is just about in full swing in the northern hemisphere.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2020
  • Winter in the northern hemisphere is on the far right, and summer is on the left.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2016
  • March 2024 is set to be a busy month for stargazers in the northern hemisphere.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The authors linked this to changes in the jet stream -- a fast west-to-east air current in the northern hemisphere.
    Reuters, CNN, 21 July 2022
  • Its the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere and the shortest night in the southern hemisphere.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The third and final full Moon of summer in the northern hemisphere.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • He's been lighting up fields in the northern hemisphere in the Top 14 and the Heineken Cup and he's been doing the same for the Springboks.
    George Ramsay, CNN, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Will the arrival of warmer weather in the northern hemisphere keep it in check there?
    John Lauerman, Bloomberg.com, 6 May 2020
  • After the spring equinox, the northern hemisphere tilts toward the sun.
    CBS News, 19 Mar. 2020
  • For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the sun’s arc is always in our southern sky.
    Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
  • May and the northern hemisphere has woken up, as have its bears.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2021
  • The day that the North Pole is pointed closest to the sun, the northern hemisphere receives the most light for the longest amount of time.
    Sarah Zlotnick, Country Living, 16 June 2021
  • But twice a year — in the spring and fall — spring tides become king tides when the Earth’s northern hemisphere is closest to the sun.
    Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The storm is 4,600 miles across -- wider than the Atlantic Ocean -- and formed in Neptune's northern hemisphere.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Each solar storm brings bright lights to the northern hemisphere.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The jury's still out on why the hoodwinker is showing up in the northern hemisphere.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2020
  • In the northern hemisphere, the next big meteor shower is the Perseids, one of the best shows of the year.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2023
  • In the northern hemisphere, summer starts at the end of June and lasts until the end of September.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2024
  • This marks spring in the northern hemisphere and autumn in the southern hemisphere.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2023
  • That means the northern hemisphere is angled toward the sun for half the year and angled away for the other half.
    Tom Metcalfe /, NBC News, 20 June 2018
  • In the northern hemisphere, summer lasts from the end of June until the end of September.
    John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2024
  • The Franklin rover would touch down in a region of Mars’s northern hemisphere called Oxia Planum.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 19 May 2022
  • Afterward, the sun will seem to cross the equator, and favor us in the northern hemisphere for six months.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Fall is here, and the mercury is falling in thermostats across the northern hemisphere.
    Markham Heid, Time, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Redfield said the spread of the virus in the southern hemisphere gives him concern about a second wave at the end of 2020 in the northern hemisphere.
    Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 22 May 2020
  • Now, another blast of heat is looming this weekend on the west coast of the U.S., as much of the northern hemisphere bakes.
    Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 7 July 2021
  • And Hayabusa2 will drop three small rovers onto patches of the space rock's northern hemisphere, so a southern site for the 22-lb.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Aug. 2018
  • The other, known as the vernal equinox or March equinox, occurs each year between March 19 and March 21 and marks the start of spring in the northern hemisphere.
    Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2023
  • Summer months have brought heat waves to the northern hemisphere, and winter in the southern hemisphere is warmer than usual.
    Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 24 July 2024

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