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Palm Desert is a city in the Coachella Valley region of Riverside County, California.The city is located in the Colorado Desert arm of the Sonoran Desert, about 14 miles (23 km) east of Palm Springs, 121 miles (195 km) northeast of San Diego and 122 miles (196 km) east of Los Angeles.
The climate of California varies widely from hot desert to alpine tundra, depending on latitude, elevation, and proximity to the Pacific Coast. California 's coastal regions, the Sierra Nevada foothills, and much of the Central Valley have a Mediterranean climate , with warmer, drier weather in summer and cooler, wetter weather in winter.
There are three main deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert. [5]: 408 The Mojave Desert is bounded by the Tehachapi Mountains on the northwest, the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains on the south, and extends eastward to California's borders with Arizona and Nevada; it also forms portions of northwest Arizona.
Desert Palms is a census-designated place in the Coachella Valley of eastern Riverside County, southern California. [2] A gated 55+ senior living community, Sun City Palm Desert, comprises the majority of the included area.
Thermal has a desert climate (BWh according to the Köppen climate classification). High mountain ranges on three sides contribute to its unique and year-round warm climate, with some of the warmest winters west of the Rocky Mountains. Its average annual high temperature is 88.7 °F (31.5 °C) and its average annual low is 56.3 °F (13.5 °C).
20 year old Date Palm in Mecca. picture taken in 1915. In the late 1890s, the Date Palm was introduced to the Coachella Valley. The plant was farmed in Mecca to a success after the Climate in the town was similar to the plant's native climate in the Middle East.
The California fan palm is also known as the desert fan palm, American cotton palm, and Arizona fan palm. The fronds are up to 4 m (13 ft) long, made up of a thorned petiole up to 2 m (6.6 ft) long, bearing a fan of leaflets 1.5–2.0 m (4.9–6.6 ft) long.
According to the Köppen climate classification system, the Salton Sea has a hot desert climate (BWh). According to the United States Department of Agriculture , the Plant Hardiness zone is 9b with an average annual extreme minimum temperature of 28.5 °F (−1.9 °C). [ 108 ]