@Trance24; you’d think that logically, I know, but astronomically, the seasons are caused by the tilt of the earth’s axis (c.23 degrees) to the plane of its orbit around the sun. The distance does change due to the earth’s elliptical path around the sun but it is a very small change.
. During the winter in the N. hemisphere, we are, in reality, slightly closer to the sun than in the summer, but we are tilted away. Hence the daylight hrs. getting shorter and shorter as one approaches the N. Pole.
Google; Astronomy seasons for more details and diagrams…interesting about day and night at the poles during the summer and winter solstices. One of my wishes for the New Year is that all of you become amateur Astronomers.