Consecutive winter storms during August 2026 resulted in an unusual and expansive snowfall across Chile's Atacama Desert, reaching from the Andes mountains toward the Pacific shoreline. NASA captured imagery of the rare white landscape covering the typically dry terrain. The extreme weather was driven by a combination of a significant atmospheric trough, high levels of coastal humidity, and an intensifying El Niño event.

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