Snow whitens Sahara Desert in Algeria Jan. For instance the 2016 blizzard dumped over 3 feet 1meter in selected regions while the 2018 snowfall left15 inches 40 centimeters of snow.
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Snowfall in Sahara Desert a rare thing that happened in 2018 This year Sahara Desert the hottest place on earth received snow much to the surprise of.
Snow in sahara 2018. The image of the Sahara Desert dusted in snow as captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. That day saw very warm and wet weather on the west coast of the United States very cold weather on the east coast of the US and a super-strong ridge of high pressure over most of Europe. One local resident said he.
The snow fell on January 7 2018 a time with a very erratic jet stream over North America Europe. Explore quality news images pictures from top photographers around the world. In 2018 Ain Sefra a desert town in the Algerian Sahara was dusted in snow reportedly for the third time in 40 years.
The Sahara desert which covers most of Northern Africa has gone through shifts in temperature over the past few hundred thousand years - but snow and ice are still very rare. Snowfall is very rare in the Sahara despite the fact that it can be cold at night - because theres rarely enough water around for any kind of precipitation. Check out a collection of Snow Sahara Desert photos and editorial stock pictures.
The town of Ain Sefra on the edge of the Sahara desert was hit by icy weather last week - and even snowSnowfall is very rare in the Sahara despite the fa. The freak flurry covered parts of the desert with up to 15 inches of snow on Sunday The. The phenomenon has been noted in the town in.
Ain Sefra is known as The Gateway to the Desert because of its location on the edge of the Sahara and temperatures reach well over 104. Snow in the Sahara Desert near the town of Ain. In January 2018 snow fell in a high-altitude region of the Sahara Desert located in northern Algeria.
The town in the Naama province has experienced snow only three other times in 42 years - in 1979 2017 and 2018. In a week of weather disasters a sprinkling of snow in the Sahara desert was an unexpected bright spot. Published 9 January 2018.
The area has experienced snowfall in the. Sahara Desert snow revealed in stunning pictures Mon January 8 2018 The Sahara Desert turns into stunning snow scene for the second time in 40. Snow in the Sahara Creates White-Capped Dunes of Eerie Beauty About 15 inches of snow was reported this week in the Saharan region of Aïn Séfra in northwestern Algeria.
Image by ESA CC BY 20 Released on 12 January 2018 by the European Space Agency an incredible image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission shows the rugged orange-brown dunes and mountains of northwest Algeria right on the edge of the. On Sunday Ain Sefra a desert town in Algeria known as the Gateway to the Sahara experienced a substantial amount of snow for reportedly the third time in. The rare scene didnt last long.
Snow in the Sahara Desert near the town of Ain. That last weather element is the key to the Sahara snow. The only other times there has been snow in Ain Sefra were 1979 2017 and 2018.
More than a foot of snow fell Sunday on the Sahara shrouding the orange and red landscape in hues of white. The quantity of snow has varied greatly over the past 42 years ranging from a.
