Water gushes through sand dunes after a rare rainfall in the Sahara desert

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Sahara Desert is flooding after receiving a year's worth of rain in 2 days

One of the driest places on Earth, the Sahara Desert, has flooded after torrential rainfall in southeastern Morocco last month. The area received more than a year's worth of rainfall in two days.

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In two days it rained for a year in the Sahara Desert. Satellite images recently published by NASA show how Lake Iriqui, located between Zagora and Tata, which has been dry for 50 years, is filling up, according to The Guardian. Two days of rainfall in September exceeded annual averages in several areas that record less than 250 millimeters annually, including Tata, one of the most affected areas. In Tagounite, a village about 450 kilometres sou…

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More than a year's worth of rain fell in two days in southeastern Morocco in September, filling the beds of lakes that had dried up for decades.

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Rare rain floods Sahara Desert, dry lake filled for first time in 50 years

Sand dunes, typically barren and desolate, are now submerged beneath sheets of water. What were once parched plains are now lush green expanses. Experts attribute the unusual rainfall to a combination of factors, including climate change-induced shifts in weather patterns and the rare convergence of atmospheric conditions.

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Sahara desert, world's most arid place, witnesses floods for first time in 50 years

Morocco: 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 driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades. Southeastern Morocco's desert is among the most arid places in the world and rarely experiences rain in late summer. The Moroccan government said two days of rainfall in September exceeded yearly averages in several areas that see less than 250 …

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Sahara desert witnesses first floods in 50 years

A rare deluge of rainfall has left lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert