Unusual snowfall in the world's driest desert Atacam in Chile

The Atacama Desert in Chile, the driest place on the planet, was suddenly covered in white snow on the morning of June 26, creating a strange sight not seen in many years.

People living in the world's driest desert, the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, woke up on June 26 to a startling sight: a landscape covered in snow.

“Unbelievable. The Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world, is covered in snow,” the ALMA observatory, located 2,900m above sea level, wrote on social network X, posting videos of large areas covered in a thin layer of white snow.

The observatory added that while snow is common at the nearby Chajnanator plateau, which sits at an altitude of more than 5,000m and houses the giant telescope, it has not had snow at its main facility for a decade.

Santiago University climatologist Raul Cordero said it was too early to link the snowfall to climate change, but noted that climate modeling suggests that this type of rain or snowfall in the Atacama Desert could become more frequent.

The Atacama Desert, home to the world's darkest skies, has for decades been the site of choice for some of the world's most advanced telescopes./.

(Vietnam News Agency/Vietnam+)

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