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Extremely Rare Snowfall Blankets The Sand Dunes Of The Sahara

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 10 2018, @04:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the get-your-snowboards-out dept.

"MrPlow" writes:

Submitted via IRC for cmn32480

The Sahara Desert is famously hot, dry, generally inhospitable and covered in sand as far as the eye can see. It's a little bit more diverse than that in reality, however, with lush green segments dotted along the Nile Valley and scattered in the margins surrounding an extremely arid heart – and, yes, precipitation does fall across the region several times per year.

Snowfall on the sand dunes of the Sahara, however, is a little unexpected.

Source: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/extremely-rare-snowfall-blankets-sand-dunes-sahara/

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @06:08AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @06:08AM (#620358)

    Globaliberatard warmyassing is a lie!

    Burn more oil! You won’t take Saharan freedoms that easily.

    Stories like this make me eat double meat!!!

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:01AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:01AM (#620368) Journal

    Stories like this make me eat double meat!!!

    New in: Sahara snow causes obesity!

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

  • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:24PM

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:24PM (#620580)

    Now THIS is an argument!