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Posted December 22, 2016
Apparently, even the Sahara desert gets snow once in a while.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/sahara-desert-snow-first-40-years-rare-photos-atlas-mountains-algeria-karim-bouchetata-a7488056.html
Post edited December 22, 2016 by dtgreene
Posted December 22, 2016
Nice picture!

I haven´t seen this before. Guess, this was inevitable.

Maybe reason of snowfall is due to climate change!
Post edited December 22, 2016 by shadow1980jpv
Posted December 22, 2016
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dtgreene: Apparently, even the Sahara desert gets snow once in a while.
How high is that place then? I wouldn't ne surprised to see snow-covered mountains on the equator, if they were high enough.

Someone pointed out in the comments that there is even a ski resort in Algeria:

http://www.skiresort.info/ski-resort/chrea/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chr%C3%A9a
Post edited December 22, 2016 by timppu
Posted December 22, 2016
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dtgreene:
I don't know why but this news made me feel more depressed.
Posted December 22, 2016
Why does it snow everywhere except where I live?

Seriously though, is it because of global warming? If it has happened 40 years before, then it needn't be unnatural.
Posted December 22, 2016
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it looks like milk and chocolate
Posted December 22, 2016
that's really cool, thanks for sharing dtgreene :)

I'd love to have seen the children's reactions to it.
Posted December 22, 2016
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Shadowstalker16: Why does it snow everywhere except where I live?

Seriously though, is it because of global warming? If it has happened 40 years before, then it needn't be unnatural.
It's colder where it should be hot and warmer where it should be cold, even over 30C warmer than normal in the Arctic after all. As averages increase, the difference between regions decreases and things get even more out of whack.
Posted December 22, 2016
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amrit9037: I don't know why but this news made me feel more depressed.
I had the opposite reaction, glad that something that is seemingly contradictory actually can happen. I wonder if the inverse could happen, a small desert in the middle of North or South Pole. That too would probably make me smile.
Posted December 22, 2016
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Nirth:
I felt like this.
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Posted December 22, 2016
It's only fair, parts of Europe regularly get some Sahara sand on its snow ;-P
Posted December 22, 2016
Global warming? It's a desert. They often sit at both extremes of temperature. They often fall below freezing during the colder months. It's just that the colder months rarely see any sort of precipitation. When water falls from the sky during the cold months it would usually fall as snow. There isn't snow because it's colder than it should be but because it's wetter than it should be.
Posted December 22, 2016
In a related story, this morning Anchorage Alaska got three inches of sand.
Posted December 22, 2016
Wiki says: " In den Wintermonaten kann die Temperatur nachts bis auf −10 °C sinken, kurzzeitig Bodenfrost auftreten und in Höhenlagen auch Schnee fallen."

Translation: "During the winter months, temperature can sink to -10° C, short-termed ground frost appears, and in high altitudes also snow falls."
Posted December 22, 2016
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tremere110: Global warming? It's a desert. They often sit at both extremes of temperature. They often fall below freezing during the colder months. It's just that the colder months rarely see any sort of precipitation. When water falls from the sky during the cold months it would usually fall as snow. There isn't snow because it's colder than it should be but because it's wetter than it should be.
So we can blame it on "Global Moistening" then?
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