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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/
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @02:11PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @11:35PM
I don't think temperature maps to energy like that. What happens if you increase the energy and decrease the pressure?
This is totally false. Look at Venus, which has extremely uniform and constant weather patterns.
(Score: 2) by Entropy on Thursday January 11 2018, @12:42PM
While that may be true, it's also true that the temperature will almost never be average. So global warming alarmists like to claim GLOBAL WARMING! if temperatures are above average, or below average--which it will always be. Approximately 50% of temperature measurements will be above average, and approximately 50% of temperature measurements will be below average by definition. Thus, they've claimed 100% of outcomes to be a sure sign that they are right about MAN MADE global warming. Do you see the problem?