How cold can it get in the Sahara desert at night?

Answer 1

13 degrees Fahrenheit

Answer 2

This depends on the season, elevation, and exact location in the Sahara desert. However, generally speaking, it is a myth that summer nights in the Sahara are cold. After a typical 110-120 degree day, the nighttime low is probably going to be around 80 degrees F. However, cold nights can occur in the Sahara desert in winter. Temperatures can drop below freezing at night in some locations during winter.

Answer 3

The coldest temperature in the Sahara desert is 36 degrees
Well, it depends on where in the desert, but it can reach below freezing. Its colder nearer to the ocean and warmer towards the center of the desert.
The lowest temperature ever recorded in the Sahara Desert was 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures in deserts get dangerously low at night.

The Sahara is the biggest desert in the world.

It's parched, forbidding landscape took shape over thousands of years, but even today, the Sahara is constantly changing.

Why is this desert so important to Africans? How do people survive its harsh, dry climate? And is the Sahara getting bigger, or smaller?

By studying satellite photos, some scientists have come to believe that the Sahara often shrinks and grows. In the early 1980s, the Sahara's southern edge stretched into the Sahel, a dry group that split the desert from the savanna. But by the mid-1980s this part was green and wet again.

The Sahara gets less than three inches of rain a year; Chicago's yearly rainfall, its shared rainfall, snow and sleet, is 33.34 inches (84.68 cm). Even in the Sahara's wettest areas, it may rain twice one week and not rain again for years.

For centuries caravans have traveled through the Sahara desert. Even though there are many oases in the Sahara, the desert is so huge that travelers may go for days to reach them.

Oases make trade possible between the ports of North Africa and savanna markets further south. Without these wet rest stops for humans and animals, crossing the desert would be almost impossible.

As the world's biggest desert, the Sahara covers a third of the African continent, an area about the size of the United States.

What makes the Sahara a desert?

The Sahara is one of the hottest places on Earth. Even though temperatures there may rise to 150 F (57.7 C), its dryness, not heat, that makes a place like the Sahara a desert. The frozen continent of Antarctica is so dry that some scientists believe it a desert, too.

As the world's biggest desert, the Sahara gets less than three inches (7.6 cm) of rain a year. Even in its wettest areas, rain may arrive twice in one week, then not return for years.

50+ celsius to below freezing, like having a 'year in a day'.

Answer 4

The Sahara can reach below freezing depending on where you are. It is colder in the middle of the desert and isolated from the coast during the winter.

The average recorded nighttime temperatures in December and January for Erfoud, Morocco is 4oC.

Answer 5

In the Sahara Desert, during the day the temperature may reach 50°C. Then at night it may fall to below 0°C (freezing). Because the night sky is usually cloudless, there is nothing to prevent the day's heat from escaping into the atmosphere.

Answer 6

Below Zero Degrees

Answer 7

It can reach up to 55 degees Celcius