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Except axial tilt merely explains the change in weather. It doesn't account for the experience of the changing of seasons like trees losing their leaves. Sure, you could pull out more science but having to explain cosmology, biology, and weather systems to a kid who asks "Why is it cold in the winter?" is kinda silly. Otherwise, you're just telling them about an abstraction of an abstraction interpreted through your elementary school science teacher.
You're not Bill Nye with a team of writers and a TV show budget. Your you and presumably being asked on the fly by your kid.
dunno how to break this to you but winter is cold because there's less light
Not at all. Summer nights are warmer than winter day despite having more light.
Besides, the context is teaching children the practical meaning of seasons changing. No one is literally trying to figure out the thermodynamics of the earth. I never suggested that Diameter is literally causing winter because she's in mourning. But I may be wrong either way, if Hexbear adults can't understand the metaphor I'm using here then I doubt their children would.
Except they don't have more light over a 24 hour period.
Besides, I hardly think there's a Greek myth that explains that.
I think metaphor and similes are great for explanation and understanding things (including novel things) but you've picked some examples a lot of people are going to get stuck on.
I think, aside from summer having more time between sunrise and sunset, it effectively has "denser" light due to the angle of exposure.
Yep, the number of photons hitting the ground per second is higher (the photon flux density) which is why solar panels generate less power in winter even at noon.