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Snow Only Once In The Sahara Desert

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For the only time in recorded weather history, snow fell in the Sahara desert in southern Algeria on February 18, 1979. The storm lasted only half an hour and the snow was gone within hours.

Posted:  2002-07-17  2:41:56 PM

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