A professional photographer has actually recorded lovely pictures of snow blanketing dune in the Sahara Desert.
The location is more frequently understood for its hot and dry environment– however extremely seldom, we see this striking sight.
Karim Bouchetata took the pictures near the town of Ain Sefra in northwest Algeria the other day, where temperature levels was up to -2 C.
The location is around 1,000 metres above water level and surrounded by the Atlas Mountains, so it has actually often seen snow prior to.
Even then, nevertheless, the phenomenon is unusual– with snow simply 5 times in the last 24 years in 1979, 2016, 2018 and2021
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The ice produced spectacular patterns in the sand, nevertheless there most likely wasn’t rather sufficient to construct a lifesize snowman or an igloo right now.
Ain Sefra is called‘The Gateway to the Desert’
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The Sahara Desert covers the majority of Northern Africa and it has actually gone through shifts in temperature level and wetness over the previous couple of hundred thousand years.
Most of the time, the desert is much hotter with a typical temperature level throughout the day of 38 C– and a heat record of over 50 C.
Snow is extremely unusual in the desert due to the fact that there is not typically sufficient water in the air for it, although it can get extremely cold during the night.
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