Atacama Desert

In the Atacama Desert fell real snow!

The invasion of cold air in the rear of the cyclone decreased the thermometer readings in the mountains to negative values.
Cooling was accompanied by precipitation: rain on the coast and snow in the mountains, which formed a temporary snow cover.
Located in the north of Chile, Atacama Desert is the most arid place on earth. Below 50 mm of rain is a years average here. In some places precipitation comes only once in few decades. In the Antafogasta area the year average precipitation is only 1 mm. Some weather stations have never recorded rain.
According to the research of scientists from the UK, there are river beds that havent seen water in the past 120,000 years.