This striking image shows the fleeting moment that the Sonoran desert in a parched corner of North America was blanketed in 10 centimetres of snow
managed to capture images of the ground earlier this month when it was blanketed in 10 centimetres of snow, albeit just for a fleeting 4 hours – something that, according to him, hasn’t occurred in a decade.
Dykinga, who has been photographing this desert for more than 40 years, says he felt “pure joy and wonder, along with anxiety” as he hurried to reach the optimum locations to document the snow before it all melted.“It’s very rare to see this amount,” he says. “In the south-west desert in a long drought period, it’s a time to celebrate!”
It isn’t totally clear why the snowfall happened, but it was in part due to the La Niña weather event, which is the result of the sea surface temperature in parts of the Pacific Ocean periodically dropping below average. Another factor was cold air blowing over from the Arctic.
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