People slide down white-capped sand dunes in the Sahara, near the Algerian town of Aïn Séfra, after a snowstorm on January 7.
Kamel Sekkouri, who grew up nearby, told The New York Times that he’d seen snow there only five times in the past four decades. He described the sight as “incredible, unbelievable, magical, sensational,” adding, “When you walk in the snowy dunes, you feel like you are in Mars or Uranus.”
Not coincidentally, the snowfall in the Sahara happened at the same time as extreme weather elsewhere: The US East Coast was brutally cold, while Sydney, Australia, sweltered in nearly 117-degree heat, the hottest temperatures there in almost 80 years.…