It Snowed In The Sahara Desert After 40 Years & Here Are The Pictures

SW Staff

For the first time in almost 40 years, mustard sandunes of Sahara Desert were covered in show. 

Photographer Karim Bouchetata on Monday shared photos of the desert sand covered in a sheet of snow.

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The Algerian town of Ain Sefra situated in Sahara witnessed snowfall on Monday and it was in February 1979 that it last received a snowfall for about thirty minutes, reports CNN.

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Bouchetata in a conversation with Independent that people were stunned when snow rained on the desert. He said that the snow lasted for a day and then melted away.

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Sahara, the largest desert in the world spans an area of 92 lakh square kilometres.

Here are some more images:

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