Im interested to know why Australia seems to have the largest continuous area of arid land (probably being the Sahara), and very little of it is green, arable land? I assume a lot of it has to do with weather patterns, but I’d love to know the specifics. Thanks!
In: 2
Cold currents on the west coast means very little water evaporates to make rain, and on the east coast a mountain range creates a rain shadow, which means those mountains are physically blocking all those rain-carrying clouds and winds from going inland, so on one side of the mountains you get a lot of rain, and on the other side you get hardly any.
Latest Answers