Snow Cloaks Atacama, the World's Driest Desert

Atacama, World's Driest Desert, Sees Snow For The First Time In 10 Years

Atacama Desert, Earth's driest place, stunned with rare snowfall after a decade, transforming its Mars-like landscape into a snowy wonderland.

Rare snow blankets Atacama, the world's driest desert in Chile

In a rare and stunning weather event, residents of northern Chile's Atacama Desert — the driest desert on Earth — woke up Thursday to find their arid surroundings covered in snow. "INCREDIBLE! The Atacama Desert, the world's most arid, is COVERED IN SNOW," the ALMA observatory, situated 2,900 meters (9,500 feet) above sea level, wrote on X, alongside a video of vast expanses covered in a dusting of white, News.Az reports, citing foreign media. T…

Snow Covers World's Driest Desert 'Atacama' After A Decade

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow.

The driest desert in the world was under snow: EADaily

EADaily, June 27th, 2025. The Chilean Atacama Desert, which is considered the driest in the world, turned out to be snow-covered on Thursday, the ALMA observatory located on its territory reported.