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The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation. The typically bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces in desert climates are dry and hold little moisture, quickly evaporating the already little rainfall they receive.
Saudi Arabia's Köppen climate classification map.. The climate of Saudi Arabia is marked by high temperatures during the day and low temperatures at night. The country follows the pattern of the desert climate, with the exception of the southwest, which features a subtropical highland climate and a semi-desert climate.
Phoenix has a hot desert climate (Köppen: BWh), [1] [2] typical of the Sonoran Desert, and is the largest city in America in this climatic zone. [3] Phoenix has long, extremely hot summers and short, mild winters. The city is within one of the world's sunniest regions, with its sunshine duration comparable to the Sahara region.
The City In the Middle of the Night is a 2019 climate-fiction novel by Charlie Jane Anders. [1] It is set on a tidally locked planet, where human life, surrounded by hostile alien life, is mostly divided between two archetypically different urban sites. The main story focuses on two characters whose actions take them outside of the cities.
Desert Star is the 37th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the twenty-fourth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. The book was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2022 .
In ninth grade, Zuri worked on a project to set up a small library for migrant girls. "I learned about book deserts through that," said Zuri, who said she has always been a voracious reader.
In February 2015, Layne created Desert Oracle: The Voice of the Desert, [19] a quarterly periodical focused on the "weirdness of the desert" in the Southwestern United States. [2] Each edition runs 44 pages, most of which is written and designed by Layne, [1] entirely in black-and-white, inside a yellow and black cover. [3]
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