Overview of Western Sahara: Climate

Western Sahara is a hot, dry desert; consequently, rain is rare, but flash floods occasionally occur. Cold offshore air currents produce fog and heavy dew. There is very little water in the ground. This coupled with a lack of water vapor in the air, which in other regions acts as a greenhouse gas, allows daytime heat to be lost very rapidly into space via infrared radiation. Read More »

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Overview of Western Sahara: Climate is based on Western Sahara by Justin Anthony Knapp, Eco84, Bill Ellett, Peter Fitzgerald, Jani Patokallio, Bassetlover, ChubbyWimbus, iGuide and others. Travel guides are available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.