It snowed 16 inches in the Sahara Desert near the town Ain Sefra in Algeria after a storm hit on Sunday. This is the third time in 40 years that snow has fallen on the city.
Residents also awoke to snow in 2016 and 2017. But this time, they got about 16 inches of the white stuff. While the actual town of Ain Sefra only saw a few inches of snow, the sand dunes in the desert, which is on the outskirts of the town, were covered.
“We were really surprised when we woke up to see snow again. It stayed all day on Sunday and began melting at around 5 pm,” said Photographer Karim Bouchetata. When Bouchetata says “again”, the photographer is referring to another snowstorm not long ago. In 2016, the town known as “The Gateway to the Desert” saw deep snow shortly after Christmas and it caused chaos, with passengers stranded on buses after the roads became slippery and icy.
But children made the most of it, sledding down the desert sand dunes and building snowmen.
The cold snap comes as Europe and the United States froze in bitter temperatures. Winter Storm Grayson, battering the US east coast, has seen the sea freeze in Cape Cod, along with the Niagra Falls in stunning scenes.
“Cold air was pulled down south into North Africa over the weekend as a result of high pressure over Europe,” said a spokesman for the Met Office earlier. “The high pressure meant the cold weather extended further south than normal.” Ain Sefra is about 3,281 feet above sea level and surrounded by the Atlas Mountains.
The Sahara Desert covers most of Northern Africa and it has gone through shifts in temperature and moisture over the past few hundred thousand years. Although the Sahara is very dry today, it is expected to become green again in about 15,000 years and was green in the past. This change was blamed on “global warming” or “climate change.”
oh my, snow? how terrible!
i wish i had 16 inches, i would be famous
You’d also be exhausted.
Rrrr, are you sure you know what Gandhi is talking about?
“Global warming in the Sahara.” Deserts have always been hot. DUH!
Brave,
Some of the hottest and COLDEST places
I’ve been is in the desert.
I posted a link to the article on this yesterday @ the Gore story. Old news already. What folks forget is that sand doesn’t hold heat well. Nights often are cold as all git-out. Wouldn’t take a whole lot of change to cause it to snow. Just humidity rise and shift of jet-stream.
It snowed in my backyard last year, so I know global warming is not real.
Better start preparing for the onset of an ice age. Or you could get your bathing suit out because this is obviously a sign of global warming.
Remember the claims of Acid rain back in the 70’s/80’s that was claimed to be attributed to smog pollution from factories? Thankfully NAFTA eliminated the Acid rain by shipping Millions of our manufacturing jobs over to China.Notice whenever China received Millions of our manufacturing jobs we didn’t hear very much talk of Acid rain anymore..Thank goodness China is on a totally different planet than we’re on or we wouldn’t be able to step outside without our skin being burned from all the Acid rain..When will people wake up and start realizing EVERYTHING evolves around $$$$…
“Nations, especially the US, have been in a scramble to control resources for a coming ice age, at ANY cost.. including truth.
During this ice age, survivors will be moving to the middle east and the Sahara, which instead of a desert will again become a paradise…. So first you must drive the current inhabitants out… and then expand your property rights for the real estate development project.
Could it be that the Israeli ‘problem’ is just a mega-real estate investment hiding its crimes behind Judaism, just as cults like $cientology hide their real crime of being a hypnosis based fraud used to steal money from people that hides behind religion? 1829 Rothschild buys “Jerusalem from Sultan” 1882 Edmond DeRothschild begins buying land in Palestine.
And the ancient state of Palestine disappears from maps and the history books, replaced by subliminal, repetitive, covert hypnotic suggestion that something that was intentionally contrived entirely for THE PROFIT, is real.
Note on above: Found on page 55, Chapter: Hermes Trismegistus and Magic, Book Title: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, by Francis A. Yates
“And in the prophesy of the Asclepius, after the Lament, of the eventual restoration of the Egyptian religion, it is said:
The Gods who exercise their dominion over the earth will be restored one day and installed in a City at the extreme limit of Egypt, a City which will be founded towards the setting the sun, and into which will hasten by land and by sea, the whole race of mortal men. 1. (Asclepius C.H. II, p 332)
above from: https://arnielerma.quora.com/THIS-IS-THE-PLAN
At 3536′ altitude, in the foothills of the Atlas mountains, in winter, this is a non-event.
Geostorm!
I say send al gore butt ass naked ..That would correct him..
I believe the Dutch have just released a study claiming that despite decades of serious GW, the sea levels haven’t risen, because why…? Because the weight of all that extra water is pushing down the sea beds.
Howzat for pseudo-science BS..!
How many Arabs does it take to put snow chains on a camel?
Yep! and it snowed in the driest place on earth recently– some desert got almost 3 feet of snow– the FIRST TIME EVER HAPPENED!!!
Likewise, presently, in Australia, they are having 118 degree weather– first time that hot in almost 100 years!!
Likewise, the Arctic (which is heating up 2-3 times the rest of the planet) is MELTING! Its in run-away melt mode!! according to the US Navy, its quite possible we will SEE a blue ocean event (meaning no more summer sea ice) in the Arctic this coming summer, for the first time IN THOUSANDS OF YEARS!! And that is occurring as Antarctica is breaking apart!
Likewise, in 2011, we had 100 degree weather up north in Delaware in OCTOBER!!! (we used to have BLIZZARDS in Delaware!! Now, its like a desert in Delaware!! Its up NORTH– WHERE THEY NORMALLY HAVE BLIZZARDS!!
Likewise, this past fall, Puerto Rico was DESTROYED BY THE LARGEST HURRICANE EVER SEEN BY METEROLOGISTS!!! (AS WAS DOMINICA AND THE BARBADAS- TOTALLY LEVELED!!)
Its called ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE!!! Mother Nature is about to wipe ALL OUR ASSES OFF THE MAP!!
But just keep clicking your heels together, keep your head in the sand and say, “there is no such thing as climate change, there is no such thing as climate change!”
The Jews DID THE VERY SAME THING when people tried to warn them about the Nazis!!
They threw rocks at people trying to warn them about Hitler! And made funny, childish remarks! They laughed ALL THE WAY TO THE GAS CHAMBERS!!!
As did the people when they saw Noah building his Ark!!
But just keep clicking your heels together, keep your head in the sand and say, “there is no such thing as climate change, there is no such thing as climate change!”
The Jews DID THE VERY SAME THING when people tried to warn them about the Nazis!!
They threw rocks at people trying to warn them about Hitler! And made funny, childish remarks! They laughed ALL THE WAY TO THE GAS CHAMBERS!!!
As did the people when they saw Noah building his Ark!!
The Junk Science of Climate Change finds a man-made cause no matter what. Heat wave? Climate change. Cold snap? Forest fire? Earthquake? Climate change. Rainy season? Drought? Climate Change, all supposedly caused by man.
The real facts are, the climate on good old planet Earth has been changing, sometimes very abruptly, for millions of years and will continue to change, sometimes very abruptly, long after mankind is gone.
Earth will flick us off like a bugger.