Deserts?

[Greason Wolfe]

There are Northern "deserts" on Earth, but, for the most part, they don't have the same appearance (great rolling dunes and what not) that we typically associate with deserts. Eastern Oregon might be a good example. Instead of dunes and the like, it is mostly arid land with either exceptionally high temperatures during the summer (well, exceptionally high for Oregon anyhow) and fairly cold temperatures during the winter. It really comes down to what you define as a desert, I suppose.

GW

[Phill Devil]

There are Northern "deserts" on Earth, but, for the most part, they don't have the same appearance (great rolling dunes and what not) that we typically associate with deserts. Eastern Oregon might be a good example. Instead of dunes and the like, it is mostly arid land with either exceptionally high temperatures during the summer (well, exceptionally high for Oregon anyhow) and fairly cold temperatures during the winter. It really comes down to what you define as a desert, I suppose.

GW

Never Heard about those, but that's a nice information
how are they created?

In the story I'm writing, I'm considering to have a desert in the north, which was created in a gigantic accident by a half-crazy wizard who loved to experiment...

I LOL'd XD

[Aenigma]

I LOL'd XD

I'm glad you like the idea xD

[waldronate]

It really comes down to what you define as a desert, I suppose.

The classical textbook definition is less than 10 inches of rain a year, making Antarctica the world's largest desert.

My general rule of thumb is an area with relatively low rainfall and very high evaporation, typically with highly seasonal rains. Where I live, for example, we tend to get about 5-6 inches of rainfall annually with about 350 inches of evaporation.