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| Snow mixes with sand last week in the Sahara Desert in Algeria. |
If you want two examples, I got 'em: Snow in the Sahara Desert, and record heat in Australia.
Snow fell last week in the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria, on the edge of the Sahara desert. An unusual weather pattern brought down some cold air and moisture from Europe
It turns out that snow in the high elevation area of Algeria is fairly rare, but not unheard of. It has snowed there three or four times in the past 40 years, according to reports. That snow sure is pretty on those sand dunes, though, as you can tell by the photo in this post.
Meanwhile, in Australia, it's now summer. It often does get hot in Australia, but a heat wave over the past few days was pretty much as bad as it can get. Record temperatures as high as 117 degrees in parts of the nation melted asphalt one one highway and apparently killed hundreds of bats, which could not take the heat.
Temperatures near Perth tied records for the hottest ever recorded there.
The hot spell has since abated, at least for now. Below is a brief video showing the bizarre effects of driving on a road on which the asphalt is beginning to melt:
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