Some polar deserts get less precipitation than hot deserts yet stay frozen
Parts of Antarctica and the high Arctic are true deserts by rainfall: they receive only centimeters of precipitation a year, less than many subtropical sand seas.
Cold air holds little moisture, and what falls often stays locked as ice and snow for ages. The landscape looks wet with ice but is hydrologically arid.
Dry can still mean frozen. Polar deserts rewrite the desert stereotype — scarcity of water vapor, not heat, keeps them among Earth’s driest climate zones.
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