He covered a part of the desert, which is in the Algerian state of Al-Numam. As the local edition of TSA Algerie notes on its Facebook page, this anomaly has been repeated for the second year already.
According to the agency, the snow melted that day when the air temperature "normalized".
The publication notes that snow in the northern regions of Algeria is an acceptable phenomenon. Which, however, happens very rarely. Until last year, the last snow in the Sahara was almost 40 years ago.
Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in the hottest desert in the desert - the Sahara, for the first time in 37 years, snow fell. An unusual phenomenon occurred on Monday, December 19. As the newspaper The Independent writes, amateur photographer Karim Bushetata has posted pictures of such an unusual phenomenon in the social network.