Durham County, North Carolina (NC) County population in 2014: 294,460 (94% urban, 6% rural); it was 223,314 in 2000. County owner-occupied with a mortgage or a loan houses and condos in 2010: 48,169. County owner-occupied free and clear houses and condos in 2010: 11,130. County owner-occupied houses and condos in 2000: 48,278.
Desert soil with little vegetation cover is submitted to large fluctuations in daily and annual temperatures. Thus, although the mean annual temperature does not indicate extreme temperatures, summer temperatures during daytime can become very high, while night temperatures can be very low.
night. As a result, deserts have large variations in daily high and low temperatures. How deserts form You may wonder why there is so little rain in the desert. The answer depends on which desert you are talking about. The Sahara and Australian deserts are caused by regions of high atmospheric pressure found near 30Â° latitude lines (Figure 16.6).