A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert.
A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades.Southeastern Morocco 's desert is among the most arid places in the world and rarely experiences rain in late summer.
satellites showed water rushing in to fill Lake Iriqui, a famous lake bed between Zagora and Tata that had been dry for 50 years.According to , such an occurrence is so rare in the region that a lake in Algeria, Sebkha el Melah, had only been filled six times from 2000-2021.In desert communities frequented by tourists, 4x4s motored through the puddles and residents surveyed the scene in awe.'It's been 30 to 50 years since we've had this much rain in such a short space of time,' said Houssine Youabeb of Morocco's General Directorate of Meteorology.
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