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February 18, 1979: Sahara Desert Gets Snow


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<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-20990" data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2013/02/love1-300x225.jpg" alt="love" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/love1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/love1.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />February 17, 1979: It snows in the Saraha

1979 – for the first and only time in recorded history, it snowed in the Sahara Desert. It was in Southern Algeria and the storm only lasted a half hour. The snow melted off quickly.

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