aridity
Example Sentences
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But it isn’t just the heat—it’s the aridity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
The desert's extreme aridity makes it one of the clearest places on Earth to view the night sky and is famous for being home to the largest radio telescope in the world.
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025
That such rapid and substantial overuse of groundwater is also causing coastal flooding underscores the compounding threat of rising temperatures and aridity.
From Salon • Jul. 28, 2025
The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of that aridity, hostile to most living things.
From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024
From the upper plains, the heat and aridity radiated across the country.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
