Overall consumer food inflation during the month rose to 5.25 percent in October, government data showed Thursday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation in August stood at 3.74 percent on cheaper vegetables, fruits and protein rich items, government data showed Monday.
Fact One. The Great Basin Desert is the largest U.S. desert at 200,000 square miles, occupying the land between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada Range, the Columbia Plateau, and the Mojave and Sonoran deserts.ost of the desert falls between 4,000 and 6,500 feet, but the land includes peaks that stretch above 13,000 feet. The Great Basinâs 7 to 12 inches of annual precipitation falls throughout the year, rather than during specific seasons, and occurs primarily as snow.
Great Basin shrub steppe and Central Basin and Range ecoregion redirect here. For desert ecology of northern Nevada and southeastern Oregon, see Northern Basin and Range ecoregion. For more details on the ecology of high elevation in this region, see Great Basin montane forest.he climate of the Great Basin desert is characterized by extremes: hot, dry summers and cold, snowy winters; frigid alpine ridges and warm, windy valleys; days over 90 Â°F (32 Â°C) followed by nights near 40 Â°F (4 Â°C). This is the climate of the high desert.