How to Use northern hemisphere in a Sentence

northern hemisphere

noun
  • Spring is just about in full swing in the northern hemisphere.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2020
  • 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
  • This marks spring in the northern hemisphere and autumn in the southern hemisphere.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The lander carrying the rover touched down on May 15 in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 12 June 2021
  • For the best odds, head out after the moon sets, roughly after midnight in the northern hemisphere, to enjoy the show.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 28 July 2023
  • Jezero Crater is located along the margins of one of the larger basins in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Friday, June 21 is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2019
  • The site is inside a crater on the asteroid's northern hemisphere.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Aug. 2020
  • These health threats are embodied in the heat waves now broiling the earth’s northern hemisphere.
    David Blumenthal, STAT, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The film centers on a legend that Plovers are the couriers of spring and without them summer won’t come to the northern hemisphere.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Feb. 2024
  • In the northern hemisphere, the September or autumn equinox marks the end of summer and the beginning of fall.
    Sarah Zlotnick, Country Living, 12 June 2023

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