White Desert: NASA Removed Rare Snow in Atacama Almost to the Pacific Coast
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Two winter storms in August 2026 transformed the Chilean desert, with record snow reach to the coast
In August 2026, the Atacama Desert was blanketed in snow, with rainfall covering an exceptionally large area. NASA satellites recorded the event. Similar episodes were observed in 2011 and 2025, but this time the scale was much larger. Recent observations have helped scientists explain the cause of this unusual phenomenon.
The rare snowfall covered the Atacama desert in northern Chile, and the white stripe extended from the Andes almost to the Pacific coast, and the magnitude of the natural phenomenon was shown by NASA satellite imagery.
NASA scientists believe that the snowfall was caused by the El Niño climate phenomenon. Satellite images show heavy snowfall in parts of the Atacama and Chachanantor Plateau. Snow suddenly fell in the Atacama Desert in Chile, and NASA scientists believe that the snowfall was caused by the El Niño climate phenomenon, which occurs periodically in the tropical part of the Pacific Ocean and significantly affects the weather around the planet. In sat…
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