Why is the Sahara Desert hot?

Answer 1

The Sahara is hot due to a combination of the near-total lack of water (Half of the Sahara receives less than 2 centimetres (0.79 in) of rain per year, and the rest receives up to 10 cm (3.9 in) per year.) and the fact that much of it lies between the Earth's equator and the Tropic of Cancer, so it receives more direct sunlight than other parts of the world.

Answer 2

It is desert due to lack of water, lack of farmable land, the type of flora and fauna that live there, climate, and vast amounts of sand. It gets very hot in the day and cold at night. It has sandstorms that are very severe.

Answer 3

Because it is very hot. The heat makes the natural liquid water in the air 100 degrees Celsius. That makes the liquid water in the air gas water in the air so instead of it being humid it is dry in the air.

Answer 4

The reason why deserts are hot in the day is because the desert is very close to the equator and the sun is very high in the sky during the day.

Not all deserts are hot. The driest continent on earth is Antarctica. That's about as far from the equator that one can get and it is far from hot there. Then we have the Gobi and the Great Basin Deserts that are far from the equator. There are many factors that come into play besides the equator, most of it based on geography.

Answer 5

A desert is a dry, arid region because of its lack of precipitation throughout the year. The drought is permanent in a desert. A desert can be hot such as the Sahara, a subtropical desert or it can be cold, such as the Antarctica, a polar desert which is classified as a desert because it receives little rates or precipitation. The dryness of a desert can results of several atmospheric circulation processes like the subtropical ridge, the rain shadow, the continentalityor the influence of a cold marine current. There are some things, which can strenghten the aridity of a desert like a low elevation, katabatic winds, foehn winds and some other.

Answer 6

Deserts are not necessarily hotter than anywhere else, but they do have a severe lack of water, and people depend upon water to cool themselves off when they are hot, so if you are hot in a desert, it may seem hotter than if you were equally hot somewhere else.

Answer 7

Hot deserts have little cloud cover and very low humidities. Therefore, a lot more solar radiation reaches the surface in desert areas.