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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) by Dr Spin on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:01AM (2 children)

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:01AM (#620413)

    It's too cold, must be global warming. Or too hot, or average,

    You missed the actual problem: it is too average.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:22PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:22PM (#620632)

    You joke, but that is the end game to the climate change predictions. On Venus the climate is extremely average. Latitude, and even day/night (which lasts ~1 earth year) makes little difference to the climate there.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:53PM (#620657)

      Climate = weather (in the latter two cases)