According to a recent study from ‘Severe Weather Europe’, a large part of the Sahara will get well over 500 per cent of ‘normal rainfall’ in the months of August and September, 2024.
- Such events are very rare in Sahara, less than once per decade on average, but they are usually a sign that something is changing in the Earth’s weather system, indicating an unusual state of the Atmosphere as we head into Autumn and Winter.
About Sahara
- Sahara is called the driest place on Earth because it receives ‘little to no’ annual precipitation. On the contrary, just South of the Sahara is a region that is dense with green forest cover.
- The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, behind the cold deserts of Antarctica and the Arctic.
- It extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. (TOS: 9.2 million square kilometres).
- The Sahara is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Red Sea to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Sahel savanna to the south.
- The enormous desert spans 10 countries (Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia) as well as the territory of Western Sahara.
