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The desert is often very hot in the daytime.
At night, it may get somewhat chilly, or even cold.
Here at the virtual desert it is 100 degrees during the
day and drops to 50 degrees at night.
You might like to compare our temperature to today's
temperature in some desert communities:
Deserts are
usually very, very, dry. Why? Because they do not get
much rain. Even the wettest deserts get less than 10
inches a year. How much rain does your hometown get?
Check it out and compare? To the left is a graph of
precipitation that the world's major biomes receive per
year.
In most places, rain falls throughout the year. In the
desert, there may be only a few very large rains and
they are usually very far apart. But when it rains,
there may be quite a downpour! After the rain, desert flowers bloom.