Moist = clouds = heat retention
Desert = no clouds = heat loss = cooler
No, it is cooler in the desert at night but not 'winter cool.' Deserts experience a regular winter season, however.
A desert fox, and most all desert animals, sleep during the day, and hunt at night, because it is cooler at night.
It is generally cooler at night and easier to avoid predators after dark.
Snails are more active in the dark because at night, it is cooler at night than in the daytime. Snails have to stay moist to survive.
1.) It is much cooler at night 2.) It is easier to avoid predators after dark.
All owls have night vision. Since the desert can get so hot, most animals, including owls, come out at evening or night to avoid the heat of day. Since they're active at night, it's good to have nocturnal vision. Some desert owls are elf owls, pygmy owls, burrowing owls, great horned owls. It allows them to hunt when it is cooler.
in some places in the desert there are desert mice that live underground and come out during the night.
Antarctica is the coldest desert on earth.
The Sahara desert is one of the hottest places. It is very hot during the day but the air turns cooler at night. Daily summer temperatures are often above 90F. Parts of the desert have daytime temperatures higher than 110F. Daily winter tempearatures average from 50 to 60F.
Temperatures are usually much cooler at night and it is easier to avoid predators in the dark.
It is more like radiant heat, depending on the location of the desert. The Sonoran desert near Arizona/Mexico naturally is cooler at night after the sun goes down.
During the day, the sun heats the desert - making it extremely hot. At night, the heat simply dissipates.