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Post by theshee on Jul 9, 2011 19:36:40 GMT 10
One of the driest places on the planet has just experienced its heaviest snowfall in almost two decades. As the BBC is reporting, the Atacama desert region in Chile was virtually buried with an estimated 31.5 inches of snow after a cold front brought subzero temperatures to much of South America, including Argentina and Uruguay. Officials from Chile's Directorate of Meteorology said the area had not seen this amount of snow in close to 20 years. Local media reports said authorities rescued a total of 36 people who had been caught in the storm, the Associated Press reports. www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/07/chiles-atacama-desert-record-snowfall-_n_892524.html
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Post by Wes Gear on Jul 9, 2011 20:19:43 GMT 10
I didn't know it could snow in a desert, aren't deserts hot and dry.
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Post by brillbilly on Jul 10, 2011 1:20:28 GMT 10
Thats weird but remember that the sahara was ones fertile,with massive amounts of rains that lasted for months then gone,and replaced with dry sands. These cycles will be repeated over and over again as the earth is not a statonary object, it's in a cosmic dance this everything in our solar system as the sun drives our weather!.
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