Saturday, February 8 2025

Tag: sahara

Intense Dust Storms in Africa

In late March 2018, strong winds caused by a train of low-pressure areas appeared to fuel the flow of dust across Africa. Dust storms are quite common during the Spring in the Sahara, because the weather used to change with the seasons. However, according to several observers in the region last week’s storms were particularly

Snow on the Sahara

Few days ago one of the most incredible, rare and unique meteorological event that could ever happen is actually occurred in the Sahara desert: snowing. The last occurrence of this phenomenon was observed tenths of years ago and this is the third time in 40 years. Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured the snowed desert surface in