Africa's Sahara desert has been flooded after continuous rains for the past 2 days. According to the Moroccan Meteorological Department, it has been raining continuously for 2 days in Morocco. This has broken the record of average rainfall throughout the year in the country. A village 450 km from Rabat, the capital of Morocco, has received about 4 inches of rain in 24 hours.
Meteorologists said that, for the first time in the last 50 years, there has been so much rain in such a short time in the Sahara desert. NASA satellite images show water filling Lake Iriki, which has been dry for the past 50 years.
The pictures of him filling the sand in the Sahara desert are going viral on social media. Earlier in 1974, rains fell in the Sahara desert after a 6-year drought which later turned into floods.
Pictures of floods in the Sahara desert…
This is a drone photo of a flood in the Sahara desert. Water is visible in many places.
A traveler was delighted to see the waterlogged Sahara desert.
Rains in southeastern Mexico formed a lake in the desert. Tourists came to see it.
Palm trees were also seen submerged in a lake in Morocco due to flooding.
Flooding has expanded the area into an oasis in the Sahara desert.
In the next 1500 years, the Sahara desert will become green Scientists estimate that the Sahara desert will turn green in the next 1500 years. This will happen because during this time the Earth will tilt its axis from 22 to 24.5 degrees. The name Sahara is derived from the Arabic word 'Sahara', which means desert.
The Sahara desert covers an area of 92 lakh square kilometers, which is twice the area of India. It is the world's largest desert that spans 10 countries in North, Central and West Africa. It includes countries like Mali-Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Chad, Sudan and Egypt.
Desert weather can be accompanied by rain Scientists have said that due to such rains, the weather and temperature will change in the area in the coming months or years. Rain will increase humidity in the air which will increase evaporation. Due to this there may be more storms.
Last month, floods in Morocco killed 18 people. Earlier in the year 2022, it snowed in Algeria, which is called the gateway to the Sahara desert. This is the fifth time in the last 42 years that snowfall has been recorded here. After this, the minimum temperature in this area dropped to -2 degrees.
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