Hot to Very Hot Days with cool to cold nights vs. hot and humid with warm nights... (precipitation, humidity)

[Patricius Maximus]

I pick Zade's Oasis - the nights actually provide good sleeping weather for 8-12 months out of the year, and I like some diurnal range .

[Weatherfan7]

The Tropical humid one. Can't think of anything worse than a sunny hot boring dry desert apart from subarctic or polar climates.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by AdriannaSmiling

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.

[cjg5]

Both of those are hell but if I had to pick, it would be Zade's Oasis. Hope there are some good swimming holes there!

[miamihurricane555]

oh also the durinal range for tropicana is to big. 90/80f is more accurate.

[Ethereal]

The Oasis.

Cool nights save it.

Rainforest climates are gross.

[MeteoMan]

"and almost no rain".

Only a fool would want that.

[Panamajack78]

Tropical all the way.

[Isleofpalms85]

Tropicana, not even worth a contest in my book

[Shaheen hassan]

Originally Posted by arctic_gardener

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.