There are deserts all over the earth but in the North American Continent, they exist only in the western areas of the continent. This Gallery will examine some of these deserts on this continent as well as some of the Desert Features. In the Journeys to come, there is a good likelihood of more pages added displaying additional features within these deserts.

Chihuahuan Desert

Sonoran Desert

Madrean Archipelago

Mojave Desert

Mojave Desert

Sonoran Desert

Colorado Plateau Desert

Red Desert

Great Basin Desert

Northwest Basin Desert

Mojave Desert

Chihuahuan Desert

Too, a recent discovery has brought to my attention that the North American continent has a Climate Divide, which is an imaginary line that divides the continent into two geographical climate regions based on the amount of annual rainfall each region receives.

The line of division has been set at twenty-five inches of rainfall per year and areas of the US with more than twenty-five inches are marked in varying shades of green on the map below.

During the middle of the twentieth century, sometime around 1960, this line of the Climate Divide fell on the 100th meridian as most all areas east of this meridian was in the green portion of the US.

As we begin the second decade of the twenty-first century, the line of the Climate Divide has moved eastward and is now approaching to the 98th meridian and even further east in some regions.