Unbelievable! Sahara is the hottest, driest place on the planet. The last thing one would expect is snow. That's a rare weather event ( the last time snow fell there was in 1979 - it was first time in recorded weather history ), and therefore this is real, exciting news.
An amateur photographer by the name of Karim Bouchetata captured the snow on the red sand dunes (photo above) near the little algerian desert town Ain Sefra, known as the Gateway to the desert . He had to do it quickly as the snow stayed only for about a day and then melted away (19 of December,2016).
There are some youtube videos about this Ain Sefra place in Algeria - an oasis located in the desert and near the Atlas mountains (see, for example, the video "Algerie, cote d'Ain Sefra- Paysages").
The snow in the Sahara desert is one of the many occurrences of weather anomality during the last two decades, which makes us wonder where do we go from here . What's going to happen next with our climate? We're quite helpless about it. I don't call the situation warming or cooling of the earth - it would be erroneous - just anomality of the weather.
