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by scythe
1147 days ago
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Desert is a funny term. Most of the areas that Americans call desert are really steppe (semiarid) by the Köppen classification, and Phoenix — in a true desert — still gets three times as much precipitation as Tamanrasset in the Sahara. There are very few areas in the Americas (Death Valley, the Atacama, etc) that are as dry as the deserts of the East. Most people hear "desert" and probably think of the Sahara and Arabian deserts, but the classification includes much less extreme areas as well. |
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