The Current Climate, The Geological History, and The Impacts of the Ice Ages

  Current Climate:

   Egypt's general climate is a hot desert. Most of the country is dry except for the Mediterranean coast which gets more rainfall in the winter. This country also is a victim of extreme heat in the summer months. Although this is true, Egypt's daytime temperatures are much more moderated near the northern coast.
    The average low temperatures for Egypt would be 49.1 degrees Fahrenheit during their winter months. Egypt's highest temperatures, during summer time, can reach a high of 104 degrees Fahrenheit. This high temperature is reached in the central and southern parts of this country during the day time.
     This country experiences an extremely hot and dusty wind that blows from the south, or even the south west, every single year. This wind, called Khamasin, causes temperatures to reach a high of 113 degrees Fahrenheit. These dangerously high temperatures cause early heat waves and the humidity drops under a low 5%.








      The Geological History:

                        Egypt is made up of three layers of rock.



   The first layer that covers up most of modern day Egypt would be limestone. The second layer underneath is a bed of sandstone. Lastly, the oldest layer of rock that's underneath is metamorphic and igneous rocks.
   The Egyptians always used their soft rocks, limestone and sandstone, for building stone. The Saharan deserts in Egypt also offer another variety of rocks including calcite and sedimentary stones.
Overall, most of the rocks are found to be dated back to the Paleozoic Era

   Impacts of the Ice Ages: 

      The last Ice Age that occurred, 30,000 years ago, had huge ice glaciers formed on the high African mountains of Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya. When the melting began 12,000 years ago, the water was transported towards the north. This massive amount of water flowed out o flake Victoria and down to the Blue and White Nile valley basins. Seasonal flooding held the Nile valley for more than three thousand years. This made it so humans could not inhabit this country at all. Humans were able to live here again when the melting slowed.