Snow and ice are uncommon in desert areas however not utterly unknown.
Temperatures in deserts can drop dramatically in a single day however any snowfall is often melted early the next day.
In circumstances like these seen this month in Algeria, excessive stress techniques of chilly air have moved over land to the deserts, inflicting decrease temperatures.
Such anticyclones have a tendency to achieve Saudi Arabia by transferring clockwise out from Central Asia, choosing up moisture en route which cools to type snow.
January 2022 and 2021 noticed snow come to the Sahara and Saudi Arabia however it’s not the primary time these often blisteringly sizzling spots have been blanketed in white.
In 2018, Ain Sefra was dusted in snow for the third time in 40 years.
The phenomenon has been famous within the city in 2021, 2018 and 2017, with the final recorded snowfall earlier than that being in 1979.
Temperatures within the city often vary from 12C in January, the coldest month, to nearer to 40C in July.
Whereas the Asir area of Saudi Arabia had its first snowfall in half a century final January, snow has hit elsewhere within the desert kingdom lately.
In 2020, temperatures dipped beneath freezing within the nation’s mountainous northwestern areas together with Tabuk, as a blizzard prompted officers to warn residents to maintain heat.
A 12 months earlier, snow fell in April.