The Hot Desert Climate - Secrets of World Climate #4

[@Geodiode]

PLEASE NOTE! BWn is not an official Koppen climate classification code, so should not be quoted in any coursework that you may write.

[@RayanbloxRB9]

What does the “n” stand for-

[@yoironfistbro8128]

@@RayanbloxRB9 mild temperatures and frequent fog

[@shroomzed2947]

I’m pretty sure it is, though. In much of the older literature, n was included. There were a number of other codes which were abandoned as well.

[@yoironfistbro8128]

@@shroomzed2947 What were the other ones, I've heard of ETf but that's it.

[@ZRHTrainspotter]

BSkL was a thing too (highland semi arid climate)

[@phosfer7853]

This channel is like watching a video version of those world encyclopedias you'd get as a kid. Good stuff.

[@bigdawg4696]

@@Geodiode Damn. So was I. The good old days those were...

[@solomon4554]

I've been learning about climates nonstop for the past couple of months. Stumbling on this channel is like hitting the jackpot for me.

[@Geodiode]

So good to hear! Yes it's the definitive video resource on climates and biomes and I'm proud to have accomplished that goal that I'd set out from the beginning. Look forward to my video celebrating this journey later this week...

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@@senula1 welcome to the family

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Same 🎉

[@Shaheen_Hassan]

This channel deserves much more subscribers.

[@jackscinema1706]

He should have millions of subscribers!!

[@KINGONE6XIV]

Agree

[@Greatsaguaro-yw9ev]

Greetings from Tucson Arizona. I live in this climate zone BWh. Average high in the summer here is 100°F/38°C and sometimes may even go above 110°F/43°C. We can also go months without a single drop of rain so humidity is very low although we do have a monsoon season in July and August. Fortunately the winters are lovely here with high temperatures generally around 60 to 80°F (16 to 25°C) with a freeze from time to time. However to live here air conditioning is a must for sure in summer lol.

[@Geodiode]

Thanks for sharing

[@Darknimbus3]

Correction for 7:15 The Mojave Desert only goes into northwestern Arizona, as far east as Kingman area and as far south as Lake Havasu area. The Mojave Desert does not dominate Arizona as the video suggests however. The Sonoran desert dominates southern and southwestern Arizona, going into very southeastern California and into Sonora Mexico and Baja California. Northeastern Arizona is dominated by the cold desert conditions of the Colorado Plateau, and very southeastern Arizona is dominated by cold desert Chihuahua Desert, which goes east into western Texas. Oh, and for those of you who are wondering, central Arizona is dominated by the Mogollon Rim, which is a series of highlands and mountains dominated by junipers and conifer forests, separating the Sonoran and Mojave deserts from the Colorado Plateau.

[@barneystinson1451]

Moved from Melbourne to Alice springs at the start if the year. There's such a big difference in temperatures between summer and winter.

[@barneystinson1451]

When I first got up here in January it was pretty much above 40 degrees every single day and then in February it cooled down to the high 30s. So I would say Alice springs propably received around 50 days above 40 degrees this year but this has been the hottest year on record for the whole of Australia.

[@barneystinson1451]

Just searched up how many days above 40 degrees in Alice springs. And theres been 46 days above 40 degrees since October last year. So my estimation was wrong.

[@bramblestar2017]

This is amazing. It helps with homework from my geography class. Because we have to do assignments from this video series.

[@bramblestar2017]

Yep! It has been helping us learn different subjects in geography!

[@Ashbutash]

@@Geodiode Same here ben! Time to learn from a expert :) pssh its you :))))

[@LenWeirdo]

I have ecology

[@mailmonalisadas1]

Me too

[@thexxxsavageninja6905]

Same here

[@guodade2239]

Whilst this video is very informative, i want to make the following comments: 1) The video talks almost entirely about the hot desert (BWh) climates and largely ignores the hot semi-arid (BSh) climates 2) Hot semi-arid climates can be viewed in terms of the Hadley Circulation as occurring at the most poleward point reached by ascending tropical moisture - so they have a short but well-defined wet season and a long desiccating dry season. 3) The extreme evapotranspiration of the tropics means that the boundary between a semi-arid climate and a tropical savanna climate can be at rainfalls as high as 33 inches or 850 millimetres per year (e.g. in the Kimberley Region of western Australia Wyndham is still semi-arid with over 800 millimetres of rain each year). 4) Rainfall variability is an extremely important environmental feature in (most of) the semi-arid tropics 5) Rainfall in the wet season of the semi-arid tropics typically occurs on few days in larger falls than even in the humid tropics 6) Biota in the semi-arid tropics frequently - despite the strongly defined wet and dry seasons in most of the region - do not breed on annual bases because rainfall is so variable (this is also true of arid zones) 7) Areas on the poleward edge of the arid zone are extremely vulnerable to climate change from greenhouse gases emitted by Australia and Gulf Cooperation Council States. In Central Chile between 30˚and 40˚S, rainfall has declined by 40 percent since 2010 compared to previous years.

[@auroraofstars]

Is the rainfall variability in subtropical steppes and tropical savannahs due to the year-to-year variability of the shifting of the ITCZ?

[@guodade2239]

@@auroraofstars Substantially so. The distribution of the hottest sea surface temperatures has a major influence upon where convergence occurs. When it moves latitudinally, convergence shifts in the same direction, and in the Pacific Rim, it can also shift strongly eastward or westward, causing the extreme rainfall variability of Australia’s semiarid tropics. Another factor is that - as I noted earlier - even in wet months rain in the semiarid tropics is rarely continuous, but occurs in extremely large convective storms that typically last for around a week. Three years ago, Richmond in central Queensland received 630 millimetres (25 inches) in eleven days between 29 January and 8 February, as against an annual average of 470 millimetres. However, for the rest of the year Richmond received just 64 millimetres (2.4 inches)!

[@joebai2475]

This kind of climate is very magical if it has water resources! Like in Cairo and Lima the cities actually grow all kinds of plants from cactus to tropic rainforest plants just like a huge greenhouse!

[@tharaamara168]

it gave me sooo much information. thanx so much. luv u

[@LegendaryUAEGuardian]

Unfortunately I live in this zone :( hot flame desert that it reach 50 C in summer and midnight 37 C with very rare and short rain :( I really hate this type of climate

[@LegendaryUAEGuardian]

@@Geodiode Unfortunately, I live in Dubai 🥺I'm very sad😔🏜

[@mrbiscuit4654]

Well I live in NY! :D But I have gone to Arizona. 🥵I LOVE IT THERE ESPECIALLY Scottsdale! But it was SUPER SUPER HOT! XD Luckily in the hotel they had a pool. Sorry I mean POOLS XD like 3 of em! LOL

[@LegendaryUAEGuardian]

@@mrbiscuit4654 I think the temperature and precipitate are similar to Dubai

[@mrbiscuit4654]

@@LegendaryUAEGuardian Ok :D ... Hi XD

[@dankenk]

It is absolutely a nightmare! Especially the dust storms and haze. Let’s move to a more temperate climate shall we?

[@Shivansh_happy_soul]

awesome video sir. Nice background music. Highly educational + entertaining. your voice is great. May I have your name to thank you

[@user-jk8eo2zt3o]

I needed a visual representation of the Hadley cell , thank you

[@brianladden6499]

Showed this to my favourite second year Geography class and they all really enjoyed it. Thank you for your video.

[@Geodiode]

Wonderful!

[@sonamkyung5962]

Thanks Ben, I really like your voice. Love to watch your videos very beautiful and informative.

[@Preppy-b2j]

Amazing video, I lived in both Baghdad and Dubai, they share a hot climate, dry, and unconformable at all. Thanks for sharing this video.

[@awsomemodels]

I think dubai is humid ?

[@climatecraze]

It was much hotter in the past ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/bILGepxmbreefpY

[@captainwilliam3920]

Dubai typically has humid air, but it rarely ever rains there, so it’s still a desert.

[@deeptoot1453]

BSh, ma favorite climate! BWh is great too if it is near a body of water! Like os the case with Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which experience the best climate in the wolrd!

[@wahedsafarali4754]

I live Phoenix. You don't really get used to summers, you just kind of suffer through them.

[@adeenakbar9728]

my new geo teacher recommended me and my friends this channel to help us prepare for the monthly exams

[@Spyranicy]

thank you and also the music is really good :)

[@zeeshan4068]

I grew up and lived most of my life in Karachi. I remember that when it used to rain, it was a big celebrations and all the kids in the neighborhood would come out in their nickers (shorts) and dance around and play soccer. Now I know that I've been living in a BWh - dessert. Thank you for enlightening me and also providing ideas for travel.

[@Geodiode]

Thanks for sharing the local perspective! Very different to all the cities in the north of Pakistan due to the very different climate.

[@rafaynadeem4696]

But now karachi is witnessing record breaking heavy rains

[@isaacnew5609]

I subscribed because your voice is so calming.

[@Geodiode]

Thank you so much. I hope you get a chance to watch the whole series.

[@theworldoftennis]

how is it that deserts like dubai are humid and at the same time receive very little rain

[@awsomemodels]

@lloydf True they're easily the worst kind of desert climates , because not only are the temps high and the humidity is high but also the winters are shorter and warmer than landlocked desert climates .

[@Shivansh_happy_soul]

I live in Rajasthan also famous for The Great Indian Desert Thar, but is far away from my home which is not in desert climate but in subtropical monsoon climate.

[@Shaheen_Hassan]

@@Geodiode India have subtropical highland, subarctic and tundra climates at the Himalayas and even ice cap climate at the highest peaks. No low elevation cold climates are present in India.

[@Shaheen_Hassan]

@@Geodiode The northernmost lowland parts of India can have have a warm temperate climate if it were not for the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau which prevent cold arctic air from coming south in winter.

[@introtwerp]

@@Shaheen_Hassan the lower Plains of north india already have a warm temperate climate ) (cwa ) due to the dry air from the artic north as you mentioned creating warm dry winters

[@guodade2239]

Actually, hot semi-arid climates can receive quite a bit of rainfall - up to 30 inches or 760 millimetres per year on the border with tropical savannas, which is more than many oceanic, humid subtropical, humid continental or Mediterranean climates receive. They are classed as semi-arid because of their very high evaporation, which limits vegetation. These regions - which include the Sahel, the sertão in Brazil, and large areas of India and Australia - are as consistently hot as tropical climates, and combine a short but well-defined wet season with a very long desiccating dry season. Except in the Sahel, the wet season is extremely erratic (coefficients of variation of annual rainfall of up to sixty percent in parts of Australia, the sertão and Kutch) which further effects land use.

[@introtwerp]

@@guodade2239 though in india the winters in semi arid areas can be quite cold and not tropical (0 degrees to 10)

[@indiantraveller2525]

Really so much useful for geography students keep doing all the best....!! One day it will become one of best geography channel....!!

[@shaneschambach932]

Hi Geodiode, great videos! Very enlightening. I have a question I have been pondering for a while. Why are there (semi)arid areas within the tropics? Namely, a thin coastal strip of the Yucatán in Mexico, the Guajira peninsula in Colombia, Coro in Venezuela and the Sertao region of Brazil? How does one explain the lack of precipitation, when the adjacent areas have copious amounts of them? Are these areas as sticky and muggy as the rainforest nearby, or are they Sahara-type dry?

[@Geodiode]

It's an excellent question, and a phenomenon I have also noted while perusing the maps. It seems to be an anomaly of the area around the Caribbean since Africa, Australia and Asia and much more uniform. It's on my list of future videos to investigate and share results.

[@ChileThailandtravel]

Nice amazing view.

[@stoby3356]

You have put together a fantastic series here. I have learned plenty.

[@stefancraciun9630]

Nice video.I have a question though.What program do you use to make those temperature and rainfall graphs?

[@augustvagn8952]

very good video. i really enyoy it

[@lizd.9131]

Thanks for making this, it helped me with my biome project for school :)

[@ricardomallee2474]

Wow this is sooo interesting!!! You deserve a million subs man! Great Work!

[@ZRHTrainspotter]

Really amazing and informative Video! I struggle to understand however, the climate of eastern Cape Verde. Is it BWn or BWh? Thank you for making this series 😃

[@Geodiode]

Thanks! BWn is not official. See my Lima video on that point!

[@somatia350]

Hey Geodiode I just want to thank you for your help your videos have been so useful for world building thanks so much :D

[@Geodiode]

Happy to help! Good luck in your worldbuilding! Make it realistic please! So nice to see it when writers do their research as opposed to so many (especially video games) where the zones are just not in the right place at all!

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Tell me I want to know :)

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Who else has been sent here for Geography class? Good video by the way very impressive.

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[@brindamanuel3305]

Awesome

[@fandecaisses1]

In the Canary islands, there are large BWh-classified zones, especially Fuerteventura and Lanzarote islands. But, interestingly, they are not that hot in summer (daily mean ~25°C), thanks to the oceanic winds.

[@fandecaisses1]

You're full forgiven, since youre videos are absolutely awesome !

[@guodade2239]

@@Geodiode The three Macaronesian archipelagos (the Canaries, Madeira and the Azores) are despite being oceanic islands closely related climatically to the west coast of Europe and Morocco. The mild desert and “mild steppe” (actually akin to a Mediterranean climate but not wet enough) climates that cover the eastern part of the Canaries are similar to Morocco, whilst the Mediterranean climates of the northwestern Canaries, all of Madeira and the western Azores are similar to those of the actual Mediterranean Basin.

[@paulbrower4265]

San Francisco, California has experienced extreme drought that if continued would establish desert conditions. Although temperatures are mild all year (and the drought did not come with unusual heat) the desert-like conditions would be BWhn more for the lack of cold conditions (and heavy fogs) than for the presence of extreme heat. Of course climate applies over time, and the winter of 2020-2021 has had heavy rain early that suggests the end of the pattern of droughts. San Francisco is almost due west of the infamous Death Valley, which gets brutal summers but cooler winters than San Francisco.

[@captainwilliam3920]

25* may be considered a hot summer in the context of mid-latitude temperate and continental climates, but it’s much cooler than the nearby Sahara desert. I would even think a summer average of 25*C should be the isotherm between hot desert and mild desert.

[@paulbrower]

Some recent years in San Francisco, California have been practically rainless. If it were to become desert would it be BSh due to the absence of a real winter (it's warmer than Houston in the winter) or BWk due to the mild summers San Francisco looks more tropical than Dallas, a place with brutal summers and occasional hard cold snaps in the winter. My suggestion: for places that might have moderate temperatures but little rain, classifications such as "BShk" or "BWhk".

[@enzoanezsuarez1072]

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[@Cleeon]

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[@mailmonalisadas1]

This is very interesting

[@bidishabhattacharyya9871]

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Ya

[@theJesai]

Great video, my Geography teacher puts these up in my Geography class :) Btw, what's that dope soundtrack in the beginning? 😅

[@theJesai]

@@Geodiode Thanks so much! :D You have an epic taste for music! :)

[@senorkenyon3306]

I live in Phoenix, it is very dry most of the year, but we are subjected to monsoon circulation. This is characterized by heavy thunderstorms and strong winds during the months of june, july, august, and september.

[@Geodiode]

Yep, and very, VERY occasionally those monsoons make it to the LA region, where I lived. In ten years, it happened only once, a summer thunderstorm that came up from Mexico.

[@connorplaysgames2401]

Yeah isn’t the Sonaran the greenest in the world?

[@paulbrower]

@@connorplaysgames2401 The Mojave might be more rich in vegetation. Just look at it and you will see desert shrubs and not the unending expanses of sand.

[@MountainManAbe]

@@paulbrowerI think you got it reversed. Mojave is known for its cool sand dunes. The Sonoran barely has sand dunes (only one between Yuma and Calexico). The Sonoran is known for its saguaros and palo verde.

[@Av_Warden]

My teacher made me watch this and it really helped

[@reejog5636]

Nice

[@brassen]

[07:39] "Já faz três noites que pro Norte relampeiaaa" 🎶🎹😂

[@delta.6160]

Patrolling the Mojave makes me wish for a nuclear winter.

[@gamingwar2792]

Super desert

[@roshanmarambahewa7196]

Thanks

[@sashiprabhadubey9177]

Very interesting and educative.

[@slobodapeter]

There is a small piece of hot semiarid climate on the European continent as well - near Almeria, plus, I believe, part of southern Crete has a similar climate.

[@slobodapeter]

@@Geodiode Thanks for the link and thanks for the good job done on the videos :-) I like all the kind of trivia on European climate, but the growing-area of desert and semi arid climate in Europe is more an alarming fact...

[@guodade2239]

@@Geodiode The most radical climatic change due to the inability to rapidly decarbonise the resource-rich desert states (Australia and the GCC) at Kyōtō a quarter-century ago is in central Chile. Santiago and Valparaiso, which before the impact of greenhouse emissions from Australia and the GCC were a Mediterranean climate, is shifting to a desert climate with annual rainfall reduced by fifty percent. In Concepcion, a city with the best climate in the world for an urban area its size, the annual rainfall of the 2010s was only three-fifths the mean from before 1975. People in these areas have a right and even duty to sue Australia (and the GCC) for failing to achieve zero emissions not later than 2005, and to insist that their super-rich polluters have their wealth wholly expropriated to pay the full costs of runaway climate change in Central Chile and other Mediterranean regions.

[@NuncaPowellHasSpoken01101]

Love the intros. Make me feel like I’m watching a promo video for a video game based on the earth.

[@Geodiode]

Haha great concept! And thank you!

[@seribelz]

My climate! Greetings from Mexico

[@Geodiode]

Bienvenidos! Sonora?

[@seribelz]

@@Geodiode Very close! Baja California.

[@BenTabulaRasa]

@@seribelz Baja California has a cool coast.

[@TCME88]

Thanks for this very interesting video. It would be good to learn more about the mechanisms behind the precipitation patterns in different hit desert locations, but very hard to find this online. Anywhere to recommend?

[@Geodiode]

Glad you liked the video. It is not easy to find what you're looking for, as I discovered when trying to find prevailing seasonal wind directions in these areas (which will determine what precip. falls)

[@TCME88]

@@Geodiode thanks for your reply, I really appreciate it. If even you couldn’t find this information then I don’t fancy my chances, but I will keep looking!

[@fr3dbgaming321]

thanks for my geography homework!

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[@samerawwad6595]

At 5:37 the north western coast of Australia is shown as a mild desert. I haven’t been able to find any information regarding unusually high amounts of fog in this area, what leads you to label it as such? Anyhow, great video!

[@tamimfaisal3300]

If I am not mistaken can we have two categories on desert climate as I have lived in those climates a lot. Humid and Dry. In humid cities like maybe Bahrain the relative humidity remais high but the average temperature in summer is in upper 30s whereas in dry cities away from the coast like Riyadh or Baghdad the average temperatures are well into the mid 40s and can reach 50. As I have lived there it makes a lot of difference in summer. Winters are bit cooler on the drier ones.

[@tamimfaisal3300]

@@Geodiode If we observe the humidity levels in these coastal areas we see that the humidity levels are not that high in the early part of summer maybe due to dry shimal winds. But in the latter part of the summer shimal winds are less and there is a lot of moisture dumped into the Arabian peninsula maybe becasue of the cyclones hitting Oman or normally the wind coming from the sea. And rain does not occur because of the reason you mentioned but sometimes on the western mountains of Saudi Arabia or Hajar mountains of Oman there can be some thunderstorms at that time. Most notably makkah crane crash of 2015 when the wind speed exceeded 70kmph even though it was 43C that noon. Is it because of the Asian monsoon again.

[@introtwerp]

@@tamimfaisal3300 there is also the high humid coastal deserts of karachi pakistan and arid coast of india which has a tropcial influenced desert climate

[@guodade2239]

@@introtwerp Very little of coastal India is actually a desert climate. Only Kutch District of Gujarat qualifies as such under the Köppen system, and even Kutch “averages” around 300 millimetres of rain per monsoon season, although the coefficient of variation is around sixty percent and in the district headquarters of Bhuj actual annual rainfall has ranged from about 20 millimetres (0.8 inch) to about 1,150 millimetres (45 inches) depending on the year. Interannual rainfall variability in (semi-)arid monsoon areas ought to be discussed when studying BSh climates as it is very important to most such environments, which do not receive enough attention in this video vis-à-vis BWh climates.

[@introtwerp]

@@guodade2239 so true there are monsoon influenced semi arid and arid climates aswell though he briefly mentioned humid arid types

[@mikeygordon211]

Hot desert very hot summer and warm winter are found in 15 to 30 latitude north and south on earth.Dakar senegal are the example of hot desert bwh very hot summer and warm winter climate.

[@guodade2239]

Dakar is actually hot semi-arid, as it receives almost half a metre of rain a year in a short but well-defined wet season from July to October. There is an error about seasons - hot semi-arid climates are really more like tropical savanna climates in having two seasons - wet and dry - only the dry season is very long and the wet season very short (three months or so) and in many cases extremely erratic. In northern Australia, for instance, one can have years like 1951/1952 or 1969/1970 with literally no wet season whatsoever, and years like 1973/1974, 1999/2000, 2005/2006, 2008/2009 or 2010/2011 where monsoonal depressions penetrate right into the centre and cause flooding of extraordinary areas of normally desert land.

[@mayankkumar4161]

Warm winter nope, some hot deserts can have freezing winters

[@mikeygordon211]

Lut desert east iran extreme hot summer up to 65 celsius and low to 28 celsius in early morning.This desert are the bwh climate with mild winters down to 18 celsius at afternoon and 5 celsius at early morning.

[@michaelkindt3288]

@1:18 is when they start talking. Constructive criticism: there is no need A pre-information show off that long, and making it that long can make people think there is no information in this video. So please try to keep it short next time.

[@michaelkindt3288]

GeoDiode-.-In case there was miscommunication. I’m not objecting to the montages, i’m objecting to they length. I think a minute or more is far too long (especially for the length of the rest of the video), I personally think 30 to 40 seconds would be sufficient. I also think adding text early on in it can help communicate to people that the montage is only a opening/intro of sorts, and the real meat comes after that, I speculate the reason why you don’t get this complaint more is because people who would complain about it think The video is literally all montages. I appreciate your trying to teach people with beauty instead of just giving them rapid facts (The videos I’ve seen of yours are, admittedly, quite pretty), but I don’t think over a minute of nothing but montages actually helps with that goal, and just seems like unnecessary padding to me. In my opinion.

[@michaelkindt3288]

GeoDiode-.-OK, thank you for being polite. I haven’t seen the rest of your series yet, and I watched the videos I did because I was researching for homework, but I’m definitely interested in seeing the rest of your series.

[@worldoftechnology5123]

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[@frankdunbar4140]

I thoroughly enjoy all of these programs, but I have a question. Isn't the largest desert in the world Antarctica and the Sahara the third largest desert?

[@Geodiode]

Thank you Frank. Yes Antarctica is technically a desert, but Koppen felt that the Polar Icecap climate, with its subzero temperatures year-round was the most dominant aspect of that continent.

[@MrPenPointSnipes]

Hey man awesome video... whats ur background music called if you dont mind me asking?

[@SamuelGarcia-jj2vk]

Monterrey in México is Bsh bordeing Subtropical climate Cwa, the winters is cold

[@ESFP12338]

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[@huzefajaved2114]

did they mention UAE

[@huzefajaved2114]

I’m a girl

[@avisekchatterjee4077]

I went to Dubai and you can cook omlet there in road itself So no lpg required Btw Delhi faces high temperature variation

[@Geodiode]

Yes, true

[@SylkaChan]

Baghdad is at the same latitude as San Diego and Nagasaki. Latitude doesn't mean holy shit.

[@SylkaChan]

@@Geodiode Yeah yeah, I know. But on most latitudes it doesn't mean very much. Another example is Hokkaido has a similar climate to Iceland when it's on the same latitude as Oregon. Average temperature tends not to mean very much either. Another example is Flores Island : Azores has an average temperature of nearly 64F, yet it's distributed in a way that makes it always cold.

[@cezar211091]

@@SylkaChan Hokkaido absolutely does not have a climate like Icelams

[@captainwilliam3920]

Hokkaido is definitely similar to or even colder than Iceland in winter, but in summer it’s significantly warmer, making it a characteristically different climate. The island’s largest city of Sapporo has very warm summers averaging slightly above 22*C, while the coolest coastal areas of the island average around a much chillier 16*C, surprisingly similar to the Oregon coast at the same latitude despite being an eastern margin coastal climate. Still, not cold enough to really be similar to Iceland.

[@thexxxsavageninja6905]

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[@thexxxsavageninja6905]

Thank you for the heart

[@thexxxsavageninja6905]

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[@aliaskari456]

Bought up in Kuwait's hot dry but also humid climate Where ever i travel I can bear any type of heat easily

[@Geodiode]

Then you have immunity that I definitely don't have ;)

[@aliaskari456]

@@Geodiode live here for a month u will get immune 😂

[@Cyrus992]

Las Vegas may be classified as a cold desert if you took out the urban heat island effect. In other words, if the buildings and pavement did not warm up the area, winter lows would average in the 20s

[@Cyrus992]

@@Geodiode So what should be the January low?

[@paulbrower4265]

The BWh-BWk line is approaching St. George, Utah, a considerable distance to the north and east of Las Vegas due to global warming. Las Vegas became a giant city while the BWh-BWk line was moving through the area. It seems to be entering El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez about now. Climate divisions will move due to global warming (notice what has happened as the C-D line has headed north through New York City and east through much of Germany... if some deep valleys don't become steppes (BSk or even BSh) in the meantime.

[@Cyrus992]

@@paulbrower4265 man made climate change?

[@paulbrower4265]

@@Cyrus992 Well, yes. The Little Ice Age reflects a consequence of huge population losses from the Black Death and in turn mass death among native peoples of the New World. Fewer chimneys working and fewer campfires burning mean less carbon dioxide into the air. We have more than offset with recent population growth and the introduction of fuel-eating vehicles, appliances, and factories. There is a time lag, and the fossil use may precede warming by a few decades.

[@Cyrus992]

@@paulbrower4265 Somehow temps fell from the 1940s-70s

[@checoa6313]

how is Monterrey Mexico a dessert if it gets over 20in of rain a year?

[@guodade2239]

@@Geodiode As I have said - but is not noted in the video - very hot areas can be semi-arid even if they receive over 30 inches (760 millimetres) a year. In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the BSh/Aw boundary is at an annual rainfall of about 33 inches or 850 millimetres because evaporation is so extreme.

[@Alice-gr1kb]

My dad used to live in a Bsh climate

[@heavenlyhighlands2594]

Why Taj Mahal at 0:26 ? Agra has a humid subtropical climate (cwa).

[@MausamChakraborty]

It has a semi arid climate

[@lucasmiraglia1918]

The music sounds like if I’m play Minecraft

[@snehalpandya4534]

I WAS HAVING A LESSON ON THIS TOPIC CALLED THE HOT DESERT OUR TEACHER SHOWED US THIS VIDEO

[@rehanakauser6220]

I got sent here for a work lol

[@dennispettigrew]

I'd like the bgm to hot desrets please.

[@perrylim9728]

Why would this climate also host big famous cities despite the harsh climate?

[@Geodiode]

Maybe because they think that's cool? #LasVegas

[@perrylim9728]

@@Geodiode lol I agree. Maybe I think human ingenuity also helped. Esp in obtaining freshwater. Rivers in hot deserts have been favourable cuz not only water supply, but long sunshine hours and cool nights due to lack of cloud cover makes for good crop harvests

[@muslimgeography2210]

Dubai is hot but humid

[@SuperForestflower]

u didnt mention anything about Oasis which is a very important feature of these deserts

[@Geodiode]

It would be more appropriate to the Deserts biomes video, but I also neglected to mention these here also!

[@awsomemodels]

Wonderful video ! i live in this climate ( Baghdad ) and it sure is dreadful ! but honestly it wouldn't be this bad if the winters were longer and colder and had more rain , it would basically make up for the ridiculous summer but sadly they don't lol

[@Geodiode]

Thanks for writing - the first I've heard from in that city. Yes 45 celsius in the summer. I don't know how that city grew to be so big during the Islamic Golden Age, and no air conditioning!

[@awsomemodels]

​@@Geodiode Oh yes ! the reason why it blew up is because of the river it kinda made up for the heat for the empires , and the crazy thing it's not even the hottest city in Iraq as the south pushes the temps even higher and it can also get humid sometimes😂 like today Baghdad was 35 and basra was 40

[@timkbirchico8542]

Egypt around 5000 years ago had much more rain than it does now.

[@makaigraham2648]

I grew up in hot deserts like these, we would not go out in the day but instead sleep, waiting for nightfall to travel. Many asked my tribe why we stayed in the desert and why we had such blue eyes (eyes of Ibad), it is of course the spice melange. My people are addicted to it so we stay to harvest it. Traveling can be easy if we are in the migratory grounds of Shai Hulud, who can carry us many clicks in a day. As difficult an environment as it is, I will not leave my desert seitche, like the Mau’d Dib which scampers across the sand, it is my home too.

[@Geodiode]

Don't forget your Maker Hooks ;)

[@UrAverage_Joe]

The sound effects are scary.

[@anavilcheslopez3618]

Can we talk about Canary Islands? I just imagine they are part of the dessert climate, but it's like every island has a different landscape. For example Lanzarote is a volcanic dessert, but gran canaria is pure green.

[@Geodiode]

It was an omission of mine in this early video. Later videos I do feature some of these islands (of which I have personally visited two). Check out my "Microclimates" video which mentions Gran Canaria.

[@briannazepeda7473]

Imperial Valley is forgotten

[@paulbrower4265]

Strictly speaking, Dallas, Texas is not hot desert even if it often feels like it. In 1980, Dallas had a summer that suggested a hot desert with drought and very high temperatures, Really it looks like hot steppe, but it gets too much rain for that and is a steppe only because of a limestone formation that stops tree growth. Still, the heat is horrible. The real killer is low humidity which dries one out fast. It deceives one into believing that nothing is going wrong until one gets very sick from dehydration. Stay hydrated and you will keep from overheating. Dallas gets its rains in deluges, so except for those deluges it generally feels like hot desert. and looks like steppe -- but the latter relates to a limestone formation that prevents trees from growing there.

[@daniellewis6394]

Hello, what is the name of the intro song?

[@Geodiode]

All the themes from this series are in my final video in the series. They are all indexed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXuvaXV9gMilhLc

[@daniellewis6394]

@@Geodiode Thanks! Love your videos.

[@meneither3834]

River systems should be factored in when we talk about climate.

[@meneither3834]

@@Geodiode Climate alone doesn't give an accurate idea of habitability, mostly because it counts rainfall as the only source of water. This is important when it comes to agriculture, the most important use of the Koppen climate model is to know what will grow where. Where plant life that would normally die in summer can grow in Mediterranean climate if there is water (like in Andalusia along the Guadiana) or grow in spite of a desert (like the Nîle, Tigris&Euphrates.)

[@Richard_Gonda]

I can't stand the 3 months of summer in Central Europe xD the heat anyway, without that it would be a nice season. Winter is my favourite season, I would never want to live in the climate of this video xD hot desert hahah. I'm just not built for that.

[@awsomemodels]

It's truly a pain ! I live in 🇮🇶 and it reaches 50°C in the height of summer and the sad 3 month winter usually hovers between 10 to 20 in the day but then when summer creeps in again even 25°C feels hot to me 😂 worst feeling ever .

[@ashrafbessifi330]

JC anyone ?

[@1997giannis]

you did not mentioned temperature numbers

[@1997giannis]

@@Geodiode you did not say for example max temperatures in day can reach 50 degrees

[@joebai2475]

I searched and find there are sand dunes in places where there are a lot of rain in Brazil USA and Southeast Asia .

[@paulbrower4265]

The sand dunes are a consequence of wind and sea (or sea-like lakes) more than the lack of rainfall. I have seen them in the Great Lakes area of the USA which is anything but arid.

[@boyie741]

My teacher played this video lol

[@greyliwe]

In the BWh - you have beautiful cities like Vegas, Dubai, Riyadh, Cairo and than there is Karachi😂