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Would you rather live in a desert with hot days and coldish nights in winter and VERY HOT days and cool nights in summer (little bit of rain in winter and NO rain in summer) OR a tropical wet climate with hot and humid days and warm nights and lots of rain and thunderstorms year round?
This is actualy a tough one.
Zade's Oasis
Pro-Temp drop off at night
Con-Too hot during the day,too dry, too much sun
Tropicana
Pro- Lots of rain
Con- No break in temps, Unbreathable humidity, no chance for frost or snow
With that said... Oasis is the pick. I'll suffer through the little rain and hot temps to get the chance of cooler temps. Plus dewpoints arent bad there so would offset the hot temps.
Pretty amazing I've received 3 yrs worth of rain at the Oasis in the last 3 weeks.
Zades. However, it's not true that deserts have hot days and cold nights. I'm not sure where this myth originated. The only place this sort of holds true is high deserts over 2000m.
I used to live in Kuwait where nights were bloody hot in summer, even out in the open desert. Summer lows average 85 F in the desert and 95 F in the city. Highs are similar at around 115-120.
It's because Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, east and west coast of Saudi Arabia, most of UAE and coast of Oman are all coastal deserts. Coastal deserts have low diurnal variation with high humidity but true inland deserts can have very high diurnal range. I once went to a true inland desert and my thermometer recorded 47°C at 1 PM, but at 3:30 AM my thermometer recorded 24°C. 24°C doesn't sound very cold but with the very low humidity and high winds I was literally feeling some cold.
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