What are the season's of the desert?
2007-04-01 14:34:53 · 6 answers · asked by karenklempel@sbcglobal.net 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
It depends on the desert and who decides the seasons. Four seasons are a northern European concept that have been imposed on the rest of the world. Indigenous people in other parts of the world have other ideas. In Australia, desert seasons range in number from two to six depending on the local culture.
Seasons were determined long before Keppler and Copernicus by the behaviour of animals, the fruiting and flowering of plants and the weather. It just happened that there were four seasons in northern Europe that were easily explained by the tilt of the Earth and the orbit of the Earth round the Sun. Other parts of the world have different seasons, named and identified for exactly the same reasons as the northern Europeans named and identified their four.
Deserts, which are mostly sub-tropical, have different seasons from the high latitude temperate four seasons of northern Europe. Ask the people who live in the desert and have done for thousands of years what the seasons are.
2007-04-01 22:31:11 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brown, brown, brown & brown. I lived in Nevada for 20 years and there is only slight distinctions in seasons. Summer is way hot, winter can be warm (we even played tennis in shorts during the worst of winter). I was originally from the east coast and hated living in the desert because of no real seasons. No lovely leaf colors.....no chill to the air.....I moved to the midwest and it rocks!
2007-04-01 21:40:10 · answer #2 · answered by BOOBABY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks like a desert here in Florida .. we havent had rain since like Jan. We are currently in a major drought and water restriction. I can not wait until rainy season when it storms every single day
2007-04-02 06:14:27 · answer #3 · answered by Justin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The four seasons are the same since they are determined by calendar,but the signs are sometimes different or missing.
2007-04-01 21:39:45 · answer #4 · answered by Rossy P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same as anywhere else: winter, spring, summer and autumn, but summers are typically hotter and drier and are longer than, say in the mountains.
2007-04-01 21:38:29 · answer #5 · answered by M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it depends on the desert.. but the Mojave it was generally Fire, Flood, Hot & cold
2007-04-01 21:38:55 · answer #6 · answered by darchangel_3 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋