The Sahara Desert — the world’s hottest — has been hit by snow for only the second time in four decades. Photographers have taken incredible pictures of 18-inch deep snow covering the sand in the small North African desert town of Ain Sefra after a freak winter storm on Sunday. Snow started falling in the early hours of Sunday and it quickly began settling on the sand. Before that, snow was last seen in Ain Sefra on February 18, 1979, when the snow storm lasted just half an hour. Although the Sahara is very dry today, it is expected to become green again in about 15,000 years.

Source: Punch January 08, 2018 18:33 UTC