One of Earth’s driest places was just covered in snow
محرر واقع مصر
ساينس ديلي - الكل
01 سبتمبر, 2026
Rare storms covered huge stretches of Chile’s Atacama Desert in snow and dumped extraordinary amounts of rain on one of the driest regions on Earth. The extreme weather shut down observatories, triggered damaging floods and mudflows, and unfolded against the backdrop of a strengthening El Niño.
