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Canadian wildfire smoke and a dust plume from Africa could collide over the South this week
Air quality is taking a hit in parts of the central and eastern United States as smoke from out-of-control wildfires in Canada pours south – but that isn’t the only thing millions of people will ...
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Sahara desert hit by extraordinary rainfall event that could mess with this year's hurricane season
The world's largest hot desert, the Sahara, is being hit with unusually heavy rain. Scientists are unclear why, but it may be linked to a subdued Atlantic hurricane season. When you purchase ...
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The Sahara Desert Flooded For The First Time In Decades After Receiving More Rain In Two Days Than Normally Seen In A Year
The Sahara Desert is one of the most arid, barren places on Earth, but it does receive a few inches of rainfall a year. Over the course of just two days in September, the dry region was hit with ...
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Why parts of the Sahara desert are turning green this month
NASA documented a sudden change in the landscape after a storm unloaded heavy rain across the northwestern Sahara on Sept. 7 and 8, drenching parts of Morocco and Algeria, where such downpours are ...
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Rare Rain in the Sahara Desert Causes Phenomenon
Many tourists who visited the Sahara motored... A vehicle transports tourists on sand dunes next to a lake caused by heavy rainfall in the desert town of Merzouga, near Rachidia, southeastern ...
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The Sahara Desert flooded for the first time in decades. Here’s what it looks like
The Sahara does experience rain, but usually just a few inches a year and rarely in late summer. Over two days in September, however, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in southeast ...
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A rare deluge could hit parts of the Sahara that almost never get rain this time of year
The Sahara Desert — one of the driest places on the planet, where rain is practically unheard of at this time of year — is about to experience an exceptionally rare deluge. Computer models ...
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Parts of the Sahara Desert are turning green amid an influx of heavy rainfall
It is not wholly unusual for the plant life to sprout in the Sahara when a deluge of rain pours in, past research has shown. When parched regions in this part of Africa get heavy rainfall ...
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An unusual shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green
There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but after an unusual influx of rain, the color can be seen from space creeping into parts of one of the driest places in the world. Satellites ...
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Sahara rainfall historically driven by tropical plumes not monsoons, study finds
with increased precipitation occurring 2,000 years earlier in southern compared to northern Sahara regions, as well as ending 700 years earlier, which would have narrowed the Sahara Desert.