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

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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @11:51AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @11:51AM (#620436)

    Found another individual with a sad childhood, who never played on a swing as a kid, so they never learned what happens as you keep adding more energy into a system :)

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 10 2018, @05:50PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @05:50PM (#620540) Journal

    Even sadder is that he didn't learn to enjoy math or what an average is.