Climate & Location Sahara desert is considered as one of the hottest and driest regions placed in northern Africa (Köppen climate classification BWh). The Sahara desert is also the world’s largest desert with enormous size of 3,320,000 square mi (8,600,000 square km), which is almost the same size as United States.
The average high temperature in summer is around 40 °C (104 °F) and can even go up to 47 °C (116.6 °F) over 3 months. Sahara desert receives extremely low precipitation less than 100mm (3,93 in) per year, and other higher desert mountains gets even lower precipitation around 50mm (1,97 in) per year. The south of the Sahara Desert features hot semi arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSh), receives most of the rainfall during summer. |
Temperature Graphs
The blue bar illustrates monthly precipitation of the sahara desert and the red line shows the average temperature. The highest precipitation received month is June, and the month with highest average temperature is between July and August.
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The red line above shows the average high temperature, and the blue line below is average low temperature. The average high temperature is 22.5°C and the average low temperature is around 17.4°C.
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Biome & Global Warming The sahara desert is in subtropical zone and tropical zone which affects its climate hotter than other areas. Also the biome of the Sahara desert is arid desert and Xeric Shrubland these are the biomes that receives only a small amount of precipitation annually, which causes the dry and hot weather in Sahara desert.
Global warming is increasing desert area, and it is making Arid deserts, and Xeric Shrublands hotter and drier than before. This harder species to survive and reproduce. |
Two major cities that reside the arid desert and xeric shrubland biomes are Cairo (city of Egypt) and Tripoli (city of Libya).