While the eastern United States was hunkering down in an exceptionally cold Arctic blast this past weekend, another part of the world, much less familiar with winter, braced for similar weather on Sunday — the Sahara Desert.
The freak snow shower coated the giant sandy dunes of the Sahara, known first and foremost for its deadly, suffocating heat. The closest town, Ain Sefra, Algeria, hadn’t seen snow in nearly 40 years until it happened for the first time this century in 2017. Even more odd, now, is the fact that it snowed two years in a row.
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