word | | Climate |
| degrees | Southern Ocean | sea temperatures vary from about 10 degrees Celsius to -2 degrees Celsius; cyclonic storms travel eastward around the continent and frequently are intense because of the temperature contrast between ice and open ... |
| degrees | Wallis and Futuna | tropical; hot, rainy season (November to April); cool, dry season (May to October); rains 2,500-3,000 mm per year (80% humidity); average temperature 26.6 degrees C |
| desert | Chad | tropical in south, desert in north |
| desert | Chile | temperate; desert in north; Mediterranean in central region; cool and damp in south |
| desert | Djibouti | desert; torrid, dry |
| desert | Egypt | desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters |
| desert | Eritrea | hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually, heaviest June to September); semiarid in western hills and lowlands |
| desert | Iraq | mostly desert; mild to cool winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers; northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in early spring, sometimes ... |
| desert | Israel | temperate; hot and dry in southern and eastern desert areas |
| desert | Jordan | mostly arid desert; rainy season in west (November to April) |
| desert | Kuwait | dry desert; intensely hot summers; short, cool winters |
| desert | Libya | Mediterranean along coast; dry, extreme desert interior |
| desert | Mauritania | desert; constantly hot, dry, dusty |
| desert | Mexico | varies from tropical to desert |
| desert | Mongolia | desert; continental (large daily and seasonal temperature ranges) |