Saudi Arabia's usually sun-baked deserts have been transformed into an unexpected winter scene in recent days, as snow blanketed parts of the Al-Jawf region in the northern Al-Nafūd desert.

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The photo comes from Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus visible-light camera, and depicts the first snowfall recorded in the massive African desert in 37 years. The snow-covered area ...

This could be the first in these dunes for decades. A rare snowfall in the Sonoran desert, January 2019. Photographer: Paul Williams I had no way of knowing what would be waiting for us once we ...

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which have seen recent snowfall deficits. The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, after Antarctica and the Arctic. Summer high temperatures ...