In Peru's Puira Region sits the Nazca Desert - a five thousand square mile mass of sand dunes adjacent to the Pacific Ocean.

Cairo, Egypt: Local news reported snow in 2013 across the subtropical desert city, the first snow in a century, but the Farmer’s Almanac reported that the white stuff was soft hail, not snow.

The Lut Desert, or Dasht-e-Lut, is located in the south-east of the country. Between June and October, this arid subtropical area is swept by strong winds, which transport sediment and cause aeolian ...

As this dust becomes elevated, the subtropical jet stream carries the dust hundreds of miles over the Atlantic Ocean.