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Why is it cold at night in the desert?

Updated: 10/9/2023
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Ayden Lebsack

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The Sahara Desert sky is usually cloudless. Without cloud cover there is nothing to prevent the day's heat from escaping into the night sky, which may fall to below 0°C.

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It is hot in the day because it is where hot air descends in the atmospheric circulation system, and because of the sheer heat of the sun as deserts are located relatively close to the equator (30 degrees north and south of the equator).

It is cold at night because there is no cloud cover which means that there is no heat being trapped by the clouds.

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They burrow underground....uh, under the sand.

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