On June 25 2025, snow fell on the Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth. The unexpected storm swept through the high plains (the Altiplano and Chajnantor Plateau), blanketing terrain normally ...

These mountains form a double “rain shadow” and block moisture from reaching the Atacama from either side. The desert’s driest point, the Yungay region, receives fewer than 0.04 inches (or 1 ...

Atacama Region, Chile (27.6°S 70.5°W), 09 Mar 2023 Atacama Region, Chile (27.6°S 70.5°W), 09 Mar 2023 The Atacama Desert is a desert plateau in South America covering a 1,600 km (990 mi) strip ...

Across the Atacama, most moisture exists sparingly in camanchaca, a dense fog.In some parts of the desert, rain has never been recorded. Some of the Atacama’s only reliable precipitation falls ...

Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest desert in the world. It’s also a traveler’s delight with rock canyons, snow-capped volcanoes, geysers and turquoise lakes.

Found in northern Chile, the arid core of the Atacama Desert hadn’t experienced rain for the past 500 years. But three years ago, rain started to fall once again in the region.

So you’d think it would have been welcome when the desert got two storms, in 2015 and 2017, not to mention a few much smaller rain events in between. The Atacama should—or at least could ...

If you've ever seen a desert before and just after a heavy rain, the transformation can be dramatic. At one moment, the sands seem as dry and lifeless as the Moon, but after the showers pass ...

The Atacama Desert, primarily located in northern Chile, is the driest nonpolar region on Earth. In its center, lies a hyperarid core in which no precipitation had been recorded for 500 years ...

This time it is the Atacama Desert of Chile and Peru that is the setting for the film The 33 starring Antonio ... When rain does fall it usually arrives as a Biblical-style event with several ...

When rains fell on the arid Atacama Desert, ... Mars-like Peruvian desert, rain brings death. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 11 / 181114144324.htm.