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Hot Desert Climates
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Hot Desert Climates
Day temps between 30 & 50 degrees
- located in tropics where sun is high in sky
- Cloudless skies
Night temps as low as 5 degrees
- no cloud cover and vegetation means rapid loss of heat
- Large temp range
Rainfall
- Anual total can be less than 100 mm
- Deserts in path of trade winds
- these blow over the equator and thus hold in their moisture
- Deserts in path of trade winds
- Long periods of drought, broken by sudden downpour
- Anual total can be less than 100 mm
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- Geography 1 Mind Map on Hot Desert Climates, created by JulietDestrade! on 12/10/2013.
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