Describe what interesting fact about continental tropical air masses.

Continental Tropical (cT): Hot and very dry. They usually form over the Desert Southwest and northern Mexico during summer. They can bring record heat to the Plains and the Mississippi Valley during summer, but they usually do not make it to the East and the Southeast.

Explanation:

Continental Tropical air masses (cT) are a type of tropical air produced by the subtropical ridge over large areas of land and typically originate from low-latitude deserts such as the Sahara Desert in northern Africa, which is the major source of these air masses. ... Arctic, Antarctic, and polar air masses are cold.