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Deserts during the day get very hot and very dry. The lack of cloud cover only increases the temperature that hits the desert. About 40 C.
Surprisingly enough, the desert gets quite cold during the night because all that warm sand loses its heat during the night due to its low heat capacity property. No heat is really contained in the air due to the lack of moisture in the air, so there is no real way to retain heat. So approximately 5 - 10 C.
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∙ 9y agoIt is quite rare but a hot desert can, under extreme circumstances, drop close to 0 degrees F for a short time. The Chihuahuan Desert is a hot desert but one night in the 1960s the temperature dropped to -8 degrees in January for a short time. Most of the time in winter the temperature rarely drops below 20 degrees F.
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∙ 9y agoEvery desert has its own weather statistics so we need a specific location to provide a meaningful answer. However, the hottest temperature ever reliablymeasured is a desert was 134 degrees F in Death Valley of the Mojave Desert in 1913. The coldest measured was -128.9 degrees in Antarctica.
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∙ 10y agoAntarctica can have temperatures that plunge to well below minus 100 degrees F while some hot deserts approach or exceed 140 degrees F. in the summer.
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∙ 9y agoCold deserts, such as the Great Basin and the Gobi, can experience temperatures exceeding 100 degrees F. in the summer.
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∙ 9y agoWell the sun comes up and heats up the sand and when the sun goes down it cools the sand
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Is the Atacama Desert a hot or cold desert?
The Atacama is a cold desert. Temperatures rarely exceed 75 or 80 degrees F.
How hot and cold is it in deserts?
Temperatures can plunge to below -120 degrees F in the Antarctic Desert or be as warm as +134 degrees F in the Mojave Desert.
Is the Thar desert a hot or cold desert?
The climate is extreme: annual temperatures can range from near-freezing (32 degress F) in the winter to more than 50 degrees C (122 degrees F.) during the summer.
Is the sonoran desert a hot or cold desert?
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How cold is a cold desert?
During the winter- pretty cold (-40°) during a hot summer day pretty hot: 50° C. Antarctica, the largest cold desert, can have temperatures that plunge to more than minus 100 degrees F.
What happen at night in the desert?
Every desert has its own weather statistics. There are hot deserts and there are cold deserts. In the Antarctic Desert the temperature may plunge below -100 degrees F. In hot deserts during the summer the temperature may drop below 60 degrees F. at night.
What is the temperature of the western US desert?
There are hot subtropical deserts as well as cold winter deserts in the western United States and each has different climate statistics. The answer to your question depends upon the specific desert location and month of the year. It could be as hot as 134 degrees F or as cold as -50 degrees F.
How hot is the Atacama Desert overall?
The Atacama is considered a cool or cold desert. Average summer high temperatures rarely exceed 80 degrees F.
What is the temperature range in the desert on a fierce day?
Please pick a specific desert. Antarctica can be fiercely cold at over 100 degrees F. below zero while the Mojave Desert can be fiercely hot at nearly 140 degrees F. above zero.
What is a desert's temperature range in the winter?
The temperature would depend upon the specific desert. It could be as cold as minus 120 degrees F. in Antarctica to as warm as 80 degrees F. or more in some of the hot subtropical deserts.
What is the temperature of a cold desert?
The answer depends on which specific cold desert. If you are referring to the Antarctic, the coldest temperature ever recorded there was -128 degrees. The Gobi Desert of China may reach 100 degrees F in the summer and cool off to 40 degrees below zero in winter. The Great Basin Desert is similar - a very hot summer and a very cold winter.
What kind of weather is in a cold desert?
That would depend upon which cold desert. The Antarctic Desert can drop to -130 degrees F in winter. The Gobi Desert has been known to drop to more than -40 degrees F in winter. Even the Great Basin Desert and the Colorado Plateau Desert have been known to drop well below zero F in winter.
