Is there such a thing as a cold desert?
CERTAINLY, ALL DESERTS ARE COLD AT NIGHT AND SOME ARE WORSE THAN OTHERS. THE GOBI IN MONGOLIA AND THE ARCTIC TUNDRA WHICH CAN BE CLASSIFIED AS DESERT ARE SOMETIMES VERY COLD. TAKE A LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING.:Geography A satellite image of the Sahara, the world’s largest hot desert and second largest desert after Antarctica. A satellite image of the Sahara, the world’s largest hot desert and second largest desert after Antarctica. Deserts take up one-third of the Earth’s land surface.[1] They usually have a large diurnal and seasonal temperature range, with high daytime temperatures (in summer up to 45 °C or 113 °F), and low night-time temperatures (in winter down to 0 °C; 32 °F) due to extremely low humidity. Water acts to trap infrared radiation from both the sun and the ground, and dry desert air is incapable of blocking sunlight during the day or trapping heat during the night. Thus during daylight all of the sun’s heat reaches the ground. As soon as the sun sets the desert cools quick
