[thechat] the driest spot in the world

[Martin Paul Burns]

>iris wrote:
>
>> --- iris  wrote:
>> > --- javier velasco  wrote:
>> > > ....I don't understand it though, since Antartica
>> > is
>> > > all about ice and
>> > > snow, how can it be dry?
>> >
>> > no air humidity i assume
>>
>> or is it that it never rains? never gets above
>> freezing.

>so then snow wouldn't count as rain, hmm.

It's because none of that snow actually falls - it's permanently on the
ground.

The definition of desert is an area receiving an average of less than 10
inches (25cm) of precipitation (rain, hail, snow - water in all its forms)
annually.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/08/g35/antarctica.html

Cheers
Martin