Namibia extends from 17°S to 25°S latitude: climatically the range of the sub-Tropical High Pressure Belt. Its overall climate description is arid, descending from the Sub-Humid mean rain above  through Semi-Arid between  (embracing most of the waterless Kalahari) and Arid from  (these three regions are inland from the western escarpment) to the Hyper-Arid coastal plain less than . Temperature maxima are limited by the overall elevation of the entire region: only in the far south, Warmbad for instance, are maxima above  recorded.