Sentences with phrase «as desert temperatures»

Wear comfortable clothing — we recommend you dress in layers as desert temperatures can change quickly.

Not exact matches

Las Vegas truly is party central, though visitors in the spring can enjoy milder temperatures (Vegas gets crazy hot in the summer) as they explore the desert, hit the strip, and seek out secret menu items.

As summer heats up in the Arizona desert temperatures easily exceed 100ºF with an average summer temperature of 112ºF and warmer.

His team — a Greek and two Sudanese archaeologists, a pair of conservators from Italy and Austria, and an American archaeological surveyor — are at the dig site today, trying to accomplish as much as they can before the sun rises higher in the sky and the desert temperatures soar beyond 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Temperature and other climate changes in open expanses, such as the Amazon basin or Sahara Desert, will cover broader swaths of land than steep peaks, meaning that «large geographic displacements are required to change temperature appreciably,» wrote the rTemperature and other climate changes in open expanses, such as the Amazon basin or Sahara Desert, will cover broader swaths of land than steep peaks, meaning that «large geographic displacements are required to change temperature appreciably,» wrote the rtemperature appreciably,» wrote the researchers.

In the last few years, a NASA satellite recorded surface temperatures in the Lut desert of Iran as high as 159 on a bad day.

· WEATHER AND TEMPERATURE: In the north, rain and snow can make you freeze to death and in the desert, the burning sun can be equally as deadly.

No. 3 Corvette C6.R Continues Hot Streak in High Desert SALT LAKE CITY — Corvette Racing's final warm - up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans was run in near - record temperatures as a heat wave in Utah's high desert tested America's premier production sports carDesert SALT LAKE CITY — Corvette Racing's final warm - up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans was run in near - record temperatures as a heat wave in Utah's high desert tested America's premier production sports cardesert tested America's premier production sports car team.

These grueling tests included «the peak pressures in the fuel system, the entire temperature range inside the engine, as well as all the environmental testing in deserts and in freezing conditions in cold climates — and it passed with flying colors.»

They thrive in dry desert conditions and at a temperature of 80 ° to 90 ° F. Avoid sand for bedding because it can lead to intestinal impactions, especially in juveniles which swallow a lot of substrate as they strike out at prey.

I think of veiled chameleons as the bulldogs of the chameleon world — sturdy, dependable animals that, due to being high desert dwellers, can take a wide fluctuation of temperatures (from blazing heat in the day to cool at night), and consume a surprisingly broad diet, including some vegetation.

Due to the temperature changes and other ejecta from the volcano, atolls are generally lifeless, sometimes referred to as «underwater deserts.»

It was not until I started comparing the daily temperature range between a Desert (or recently cleared land) as opposed to a Rain Forest that I found out how important that change in the humidity is.

Antarctica is known for its high, frigid desert, where winter temperatures regularly dip as low as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70 degrees Celsius).

Descending air currents of High pressure systems are also the reason we have deserts and why the world's records for hottest temperatures on each continent are not at the equator but about 32 to 36 ° North as seen in the above diagram.

In the real greenhouse which is our whole fluid real gas atmosphere which has volume, weight and attraction and is subject to gravity, the some 99 % nitrogen and oxygen dry air is what acts as a blanket keeping the Earth's heat from escaping too fast before the Sun again heats the surface, without water the Earth's temperature would be 67 °C not 15 °C — think deserts.

The net effect of clouds is cooling as is demonstrated by largely cloudless deserts having higher mean annual temperatures than moist climates at the same latitude.

The average annual temperature of the malaysian rain forest is roughly the same as the average annual temperature in the Sahara desert.

On average, the subtropical deserts are about the same temperature as the tropics.

So a hot tropical desert can have around the same * average * temperature as tropical ocean.

Actually, a warmer world means higher levels of humidity, less drought and a shrinking of deserts, as in the Sahara circa 4,000 - 6,000 years ago during the era known as the climatic optimum when temperatures averaged some 2 degrees higher than today's.

Wherever a forest is converted to a grassland, or a grassland to desert, or barren ground is created, maximum skin surface temperatures rise by 10 to 40 °F.8 Also to quench the thirst of growing populations, extraction of subsurface waters has lowered the water table.9 As the water table drops below the reach of roots, soil moisture is reduced and plants die.

Instead take it as a challenge to intelligently criticize such as this: «If water vapor amplification was real we should expect to see [the high temperature] record over an equatorial jungle instead of a desert.

I shouldn't have to belabor common geographical facts like tropical deserts having higher mean annual temperatures than tropical rainforests as that's introductory level geography.

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The building is surrounded by the natural terrain of the Sonoran Desert, but instead the worst possible site adjacent to the paved road and SW facing brick wall was chosen in 2009 as the location to monitor temperature.

If water vapor has an amplifying effect as climate modelers claim, why is the daily mean temperature in a dry, desert area warmer (in spite of nighttime cooling) than a humid tropical area at the same latitude?

Precipitation in the Desert Southwest correlates significantly with solar irradiance lagged 3 and 5 years, which suggests a link with ocean - water temperature anomalies transported by the Equatorial Countercurrent as well as the North Pacific Gyre.

Areas with the most greenhouse gases (tropics) have maximum temperatures that are no where near as high as some desert areas with the lowest amount of GHEs (yeah, yeah, it's the water evaporation and clouds; but that is precisely the point on Earth).

This varies at different place around the globe and also varies with time of day as demonstrated by the temperature of the desert surface at sunset when it is ove 40 °C to daybreak when it may have dropped to near freezing.

Ivanpah's image as a model of clean energy production has also been singed by a growing tally of dead birds, which ignite as they fly through the powerful solar beams; mid-day temperature in the Mojave Desert can reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit.