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Snow in the Sahara
- neonate 9y agohttp://archive.is/qaoXy http://archive.is/qaoXy
- hauscraft 9y agoSmall business loans for growth https://www.cityfinances.lv/kontakti/ https://www.cityfinances.lv/kontakti/
- hanief 9y agoIt reminds me of a nice song with a similar title : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpj3ra3AeJk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpj3ra3AeJk
- fiftyacorn 9y agoWas expecting "Do they know its christmas"
- Bromskloss 9y ago"…or do we have to dump snow over the Sahara for them to get it?!"
- Tepix 9y agoDoes anyone have more pretty pictures of this event? It looks gorgeous!
- jdmitch 9y agothe linked article in french from an Algerian website has more pictures: https://www.tsa-algerie.com/la-neige-tombe-a-ain-sefra-pour-la-4e-fois-en-37-ans-photos/ https://www.tsa-algerie.com/la-neige-tombe-a-ain-sefra-pour-... and the link to the page of the photographer who took most of them: https://www.facebook.com/kbouchetata https://www.facebook.com/kbouchetata
- patkai 9y ago"15 inches" - none of the photos I've seen show more than 15 mm.
- dovdovdov 9y ago15 inches horizontally...
- fermienrico 9y agoGo to reddit please
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- EADGBE 9y agoI have that same problem when fishing.
- ianai 9y agoSo global climate change is going to further dry out the southwest US and make the Sahara more wet?
- sp332 9y agoYup. Here's an article from 2009 https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090731-green-sahara.html https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090731-gree...
- yread 9y agoApparently it happens quite often, and record low is -10 degrees Celsius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aïn_Séfra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aïn_Séfra
- dagw 9y ago4th time in 37 years for this part of the Sahara according to original article.
- nanis 9y agoTree falls in the forest etc etc ... “The Sahara is as large as the United States, and there are very few weather stations,” he added. “So it’s ridiculous to say that this is the first, second, third time it snowed, as nobody would know how many times it has snowed in the past unless they were there.” "Not observed by a human" does not mean "did not happen". Humans measured things where humans lived or traveled during almost all of their existence. E.g., see Giarabub[1]. The methods we have today of inferring past events from remaining physical indicators tend to mash together decades to hundreds of years of events. One must keep these things in mind. [1]: http://climate.unur.com/ghcn-v2/124/62176.html http://climate.unur.com/ghcn-v2/124/62176.html
- dagw 9y agoAnd that is why I/they specified that we where talking about this particular corner of the Sahara, not the whole desert.
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- _cerv 9y agoWell ackchyually, While it isn't a week-to-week winter norm, it isn't all that too unusual from a long term perspective. There are snows and frosts every year across the region, with heavy low altitude snows every few years. The area is fairly dry, and low dew points make it pretty easy to keep the place cool and the regions covered in snow are the same latitude as northern Texas and even higher in elevation.
- skykooler 9y agoIt reminds me of the salt planet in the new Star Wars movie.
- kbutler 9y agoThe Snopes take on it is worthwhile and adds more context about previous snowfalls: On 21 January 2017, flurries from dawn until late afternoon left most of the area blanketed in snow...A month before that, there was a brief flurry of snow lasting only a couple of hours... snow was documented over the desert in the Bechar region near Aïn Séfra in January 2012... Before 2012, the most recent significant Saharan [sic] in this region appears to have occurred in February 1979, though it bears mentioning that a lack of social media and widespread digital cameras during these years would have made a light dusting far less global a news story. https://www.snopes.com/sahara-desert-snowfall/ https://www.snopes.com/sahara-desert-snowfall/
- Jugurtha 9y agoI live in Algeria. There's yearly snow in a lot of places in the north (mountain chains, http://bit.ly/2ErueEU http://bit.ly/2ErueEU) and we hear about snow in the desert.. It's when it snows in Algiers that everyone goes nuts, especially when there's snow on the beach. To give an idea why: it's winter here at 17°C/62°F and everybody complains all the time about how cold it is, including my sister as I am typing this.
- FuckOffNeemo 9y agoI live in Australia, in the South East sub-tropical Queensland state. Originally from the UK and I complain about it being too cold in winter when it gets to 15 degrees. 10 years ago I would have been running to the beach in the UK at anything above 12. How times have changed.
- Jugurtha 9y ago> 10 years ago I would have been running to the beach in the UK at anything above 12. I often joke "a Brit would swim at that temperature." when someone complains about the cold. Turns out I was spot on the money. Here: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/sep/04/algiers-city-break-algeria https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/sep/04/algiers-city-...
- FuckOffNeemo 9y ago100% on the money.
- Vaskerville 9y agoI lived in Mauritania for five and half years and on two occasions a friend saw snow flurries in northern areas of the country. It's probably more common than we know.
- ogre_magi 9y agoMy brain turned Mauritania into Marijuana.
- jvandonsel 9y agoI can't be the only one who noticed the similarity to the planet in The Last Jedi. https://fsmedia.imgix.net/b8/50/91/5c/de5d/4948/8e51/fdf72b24dcdb/screen-shot-2017-04-17-at-51527-pmpng.png?rect=0%2C0%2C955%2C318&auto=format%2Ccompress&w=650 https://fsmedia.imgix.net/b8/50/91/5c/de5d/4948/8e51/fdf72b2...
- dfee 9y agoMaybe we’re all just characters in a movie the Galactic Empire is producing?