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Las Vegas is a desert city situated in the Mojave Desert. Las Vegas is surrounded by 2 mountains ranges, which are the Sierre Nevada Mountains and the Spring Mountains. These mountains ranges block the moisture in the forms of clouds and rain from the Pacific Ocean, and contribuces to the aridity of the Sin City. This phenomenon is called the rain shadow. The Mojave Desert is located under subtropical latitudes, the horse latitudesand is also affected by the North Pacific High, which is a large high pressure zone with dry sinking air capping the ground? The North Pacific High stays mainly on the Californian coast especially in summer.

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