One of Earth’s Driest Deserts Just Turned White
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One of Earth’s Driest Deserts Just Turned White
In August 2026, a series of powerful winter storms transformed parts of northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, covering the famously dry landscape in an unusual layer of snow. Snow is not unheard of in the Atacama. Significant falls occurred in 2025 and, before that, in 2011. But one of the August 2026 storms stood out because [...]
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile, one of the driest and most inhospitable places on Earth, experienced an extremely rare and impressive phenomenon in August 2026: powerful winter storms brought widespread snowfall and rainfall, covering vast areas of the desert with snow, from the Andes almost to the Pacific coast.
In August 2026, the Atacama Desert, known for its extreme arid conditions, was transformed by a series of winter storms that resulted in an unusual layer of snow over...
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