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Hace 2 días · A desert is a region of land that is very dry because it receives low amounts of precipitation (usually in the form of rain, but it may be snow, mist or fog), often has little coverage by plants, and in which streams dry up unless they are supplied by water from outside the area.
Hace 2 días · A yardang is formed in cohesive material. Hedin first [citation needed] found the wind-sculptured "clay terraces" or yardangs in the dried up riverbed of the Kurruk-daria in Central Asia.However, yardangs can be found in most deserts across the globe. Depending upon the winds and the composition of the weakly indurated deposits of silt and sand from which they are carved, yardangs may form ...
Hace 4 días · In the ancient Mediterranean world, the classical compass winds were names for the points of geographic direction and orientation, in association with the winds as conceived of by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Ancient wind roses typically had twelve winds and thus twelve points of orientation, sometimes reduced to eight or increased to twenty ...
Hace 5 días · One of the world’s driest regions, the Atacama Desert along the northern coast of Chile, results from those conditions. The east coast (north of Patagonia), by contrast, receives greater amounts of precipitation from the winds emanating from the South Atlantic, and the humidifying action of the warm air currents forms a belt of low ...
Hace 14 horas · The Sahara Desert helps keep hurricanes in check—for now. Saharan dust can quell storms—if there's enough of it. NASA earth observatory. In the Atlantic, something is brewing. Warm air from an ordinary thunderstorm has absorbed heat from tepid seawater and begun churning—the birth of a hurricane.
Hace 3 días · By virtue of its location and stupendous height, the Great Himalaya Range obstructs the passage of cold continental air from the north into India in winter and also forces the southwesterly monsoon (rain-bearing) winds to give up most of their moisture before crossing the range northward.
Hace 4 días · Lat: 35.28333° N Lon: 116.61667° W Elev: 2349.0 ft. Partly Cloudy. 85°F. 29°C. More Information: Local Forecast Office More Local Wx 3 Day History Hourly Weather Forecast. Detailed forecast for. Western Mojave Desert. Today. Sunny. Highs around 110. Southwest winds up to 10 mph. Tonight. Mostly clear. Lows 81 to 84. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
