Who said all deserts are hot? The largest desert in the world is Antarctica, and you definitely won’t need shorts and a T-shirt down there. It is true, however, that all deserts are dry (it’s their defining characteristic, in fact). Most of the world’s hot deserts located 30 north and 30 south of the Equator in a world-spanning belt of arid (or dry) air. The air here lost all its moisture as it traveled north and south of the Equator, dumping rain over the world’s warmer tropical regions along the way. With little rain to nourish vegetation in the dry regions, the soil became sandy and deserts formed.
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