Context: The Great Basin and Columbia Plateau (the Intermontane Plateaus) are arid or semiarid regions that lie in the rain shadow of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada. Precipitation averages less than 15 inches (38 cm). The Southwest is a hot desert, with temperatures exceeding 100 °F (37.8 °C) for several weeks at a time in summer. The Southwest and the Great Basin are also affected by the monsoon from the Gulf of California from July to September, which brings localized but often severe thunderstorms to the region.

Question: Which areas have arid regions?
Answer: The Great Basin and Columbia Plateau

Question: What is the precipitation average in the Intermontane plateaus?
Answer: 15 inches

Question: In the southwest, how high do temperatures get?
Answer: 100 °F (37.8 °C)

Question: During which months are portions of the US affected by the monsoon from the Gulf of California?
Answer: July to September

Question: What type of weather do monsoons bring?
Answer: severe thunderstorms

Question: The great basin and what other region are semiarid?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: The cascade Sierra Nevada receive how much precipitation on average
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: South-central United States is a hot desert with temperatures exceeding what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: The Southeast and great basin are affected by what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Monsoons bring widespread what to the region?
Answer: Unanswerable