Two days of rainfall in #September exceeded yearly averages in several areas of south-east #Morocco and caused a deluge, officials of the country’s meteorology agency said in early October. In #Tagounite, a village about 450km(280 miles) south of the capital, #Rabat, more than 100mm (3.9 inches) was recorded in a 24-hour period. #SaharaDesert #ClimateChange

Dramatic images show the first floods in the #Sahara in half a century
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/11/dramatic-images-show-the-first-floods-in-the-sahara-in-half-a-century

Our #Climate Is So Screwed Up, It Rained in the #SaharaDesert

Story by Maggie Harrison Dupré
October 10, 2024

Darude Rainstorm

"How messed up is planet Earth's climate? It's rain-in-the-Sahara-level messed up, apparently.

"As The Associated Press reports, a region of the Sahara Desert in southeastern #Morocco last month experienced a surprise deluge of #rainstorms, which has transformed some parts of the arid North African landscape into lake-filled oases.

"Rain is exceptionally uncommon in the Sahara, which is one of the driest places on the planet. It's especially uncommon during the late summer season.

"Per the AP, the Moroccan government reported that just two days of rain in September surpassed annual averages in areas that usually get less than ten inches of rain per year. One town called #Tagounite got nearly four inches in one day — an eye-popping amount of water for the drought-stricken region.

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"According to the AP, Youabeb, and others are predicting that the unforeseen storms are likely to significantly alter the area's climate in the long term. That's because such a significant amount of rainfall in such a short period will add a consequential amount of water to the surrounding atmosphere."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/our-climate-is-so-screwed-up-it-rained-in-the-sahara-desert/ar-AA1s2dlY

#ClimateChange #DrenchingRains #Sahara #Flooding

#Morocco has the capacity to meet a large part of europe's energy needs if there were an exchange that would not fail because of the profit interests of the fossil and nuclear lobbies in europe. #solarenergy

(own photo: stone desert #Tagounite, Morocco)