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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:

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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 realDonaldTrump on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:14AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:14AM (#620374) Homepage Journal

    I tweeted about how cold it was in the USA🇺🇸. It was so cold that we froze the Sahara! THE FREAKING SAHARA!!!! It's amazing. We could really use a little of that global warming, am I right? Administrator Pruitt thinks so! I wrote about it in my journal. And we had a TERRIFIC report from NOAA, that says 2017 wasn't the hottest year. I wrote about that too.

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