Why does Antarctica have a desert?

Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, and driest continent. ... Despite its thick ice, Antarctica is classified as a desert because so little moisture falls from the sky. ... read more

Antarctica doesn't "have" a desert. Antarctica is "classified as a desert" because so little moisture falls from the sky. The inner regions of the continent receive an average of 50 millimeters of precipitation— that too in the form of snow — annually. read more

Without evaporation clouds do not form and no rainfall occurs. In normal deserts (hot deserts) their is no rain because their is no water in the deserts to evaporate, and winds do not carry clouds with rain to the deserts. Antarctica is a desert because the ice is dried ice s o it doesn't water. read more