The Sahara desert is known to be one of the driest deserts in the world, covering ten countries like Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Sudan, Western Sahara, Tunis and Southern Morocco, with heaps of heavy sand dunes, not prone to rain storms like the recent one.
The meteorologists have mixed feelings about this situation, referring to this type of rains as extra tropical.
Large residues of water seems to have nourished the drought-infested areas closer to the desert, although the story has been different for close to fifty years.
The Moroccan government exclaimed that the storm in just two days has been nothing but irregular, with twenty deaths recorded in both Algeria and Morocco.
“It’s been roughly 30-50 years since we last experienced this much rain in such a short space of time,” stated Houssine Youabeb, Morocco’s Meteorology General Director.
