Snow in the Sahara

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Snow in the Sahara

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 016395001/

Boy, this "climate change" thing sure is a shockingly elaborate Chinese hoax. =U
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It must be cold over there.
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Nice dig at 45 there. :)
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It regularly gets below 0°C in the Sahara at night in any season, so rain and even snow and especially frost are not as rare as you might expect, thanks to the condensation point being crossed pretty much every single night. Also the place refered to in the article is located into the Atlas Mountains at a height of almost 1.1km over sea level. The Atlas Mountains reach heights of up to 4.1km and are often covered in snow.
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BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 5:56 am It must be cold over there.
It's often cold in the Sahara, the lack of humidity means it can be over a hundred in the day and literally freezing at night.
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OH NO, the world's largest desert might turn green? How awful.
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Antiboyscout wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:02 pm OH NO, the world's largest desert might turn green? How awful.
Yes, but if the desserts are turning into grasslands, what happens to the current grasslands?
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They turn into deserts too, obviously.
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A lot of people find it hard to get over the fact that deserts aren't always hot.
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ProfessorDetective wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 5:37 pm
Antiboyscout wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:02 pm OH NO, the world's largest desert might turn green? How awful.
Yes, but if the desserts are turning into grasslands, what happens to the current grasslands?
Turn into forests, forests turn into semitropics, semitropics turn into tropics, tropics stay the same
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