How cold can a hot desert get in degrees F?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

It 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.

Answer 3

Every 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.

Answer 4

Antarctica 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.

Answer 5

Cold deserts, such as the Great Basin and the Gobi, can experience temperatures exceeding 100 degrees F. in the summer.

Answer 6

Well the sun comes up and heats up the sand and when the sun goes down it cools the sand