The Sahara Desert flooded for the first time in decades. Here’s …
2 天之前 · The Sahara does experience rain, but usually just a few inches a year and rarely in late summer. ... A NASA false-color satellite image shows parts of the Sahara Desert in Morocco and Algeria on ...
Water gushes through palm trees and sand dunes after rare rain …
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its most drought-stricken regions with more ...
The Sahara Desert flooded for the first time in decades
1 天前 · The Sahara is the world’s largest non-polar desert, stretching across 3.6 million square miles. Satellite images from September showed huge swaths of it carpeted in green as storms pushed ...
From desert to oasis: Heavy rainfall redraws Sahara’s arid terrain
2 天之前 · It is the result of a cyclone blowing through north-western Sahara, drenching swathes of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. Renowned for its barren and arid landscapes, some desert areas ...
Sahara desert hit by extraordinary rainfall event that could mess …
2024年9月13日 · An unusual deluge of rain is hitting the Sahara, one of the driest regions on Earth. It's unclear exactly why the desert is experiencing so much rain, but it could be connected to an especially...
Heavy Rainfall Causes Parts of the Sahara Desert to Turn Green
4 天之前 · On September 7 and 8, an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa, causing pockets of green to pop all over the Sahara desert; particularly, shrubs and trees in low-lying areas, like riverbeds. While some areas of the Sahara receive just a few inches of rain per year, according to preliminary satellite analysis by ...
Sahara sees first flood in half a century - BBC
1 天前 · Sahara sees first flood in half a century. Astonishing footage has emerged of the first floods in the Sahara Desert in half a century. More than a year’s worth of rain fell in two days in south ...
A Deluge for the Sahara - NASA Earth Observatory
2024年9月12日 · The Sahara Desert is renowned for its barren, arid landscapes that, in some areas, receive just a few inches (tens of millimeters) of rain per year. Still, when it rains in the world’s largest non-polar desert, it can most certainly pour.
The Sahara Desert is greening as unusual storms hit parts of …
2024年9月13日 · CNN — There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but after an unusual influx of rain, the color can be seen from space creeping into parts of one of the driest places in the world....
What Is the Average Yearly Rainfall in the Sahara Desert?
2021年9月30日 · Though the Sahara's average annual rainfall is three inches or less per year, there are some areas in the desert that may not see rain for multiple years in a row. Higher elevations also have the possibility of snow.