The Sahara is famously hot, dry, and generally inhospitable. In fact, this week this rare occurrence marks only the fourth time in the last 42 years it's happened. Bouchetata, however, captured the ice on the dunes just outside the town of Ain Sefra in northwestern Algeria. But seeing as the time before that was 1979, we're still chalking this up as exciting. In 2018, sand from the Sahara blew all the way to Europe and turned its snow orange.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 22, 2021 17:48 UTC