Chile News » Atacama News Chile » Atacama » Weather: Why is it snowing in the Atacama Desert? Dry land turns white in rare winter weather and El Niño effect
Nature is full of surprises, and we have known this for a while now. There are events that astonish the human eye and sometimes go against the science we have studied. So, something unusual has ...
News Chile » Atacama » Weather: Rare snow blankets one of the driest places on Earth
Chile's Atacama Desert swapped its dry, sandy appearance for one of a winter wonderland. And this snow means big changes ahead.
News Chile » Atacama » Weather: Unusual rainfall brings winter flowers to Chile's Atacama desert
Large swaths of the Atacama desert, the driest on the planet, have been covered with purple and white flowers after unusual rainfall patterns in northern Chile. Normally, such a desert bloom occurs ...
News Chile » Atacama » Weather: NASA images reveal the Atacama Desert covered in rare, widespread snow after back-to-back storms carried moisture from the Andes to the Pacific coast
Chile's Atacama Desert is experiencing a rare weather event, with extensive snowfall hitting the usually arid region due to a series of winter storms. Alongside widespread snow, heavy rains triggered ...
News Chile » Atacama » Weather: A Meteorological Rarity: Snow Across the Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile isn't a complete stranger to snowfall, but it's rare you see this kind of snowfall. As captured by the NASA Landsat 8, Landsat 9, and Terra satellites, the snow ...
News Chile » Atacama » Weather: The World's Driest Desert Just Turned White: NASA Captures Rare Snowfall in Atacama
NASA satellites captured before-and-after images of northern Chile's Atacama Desert, the world's driest non-polar region, blanketed in snow after back-to-back winter storms in August 2026, an ...
News Chile » Atacama » Weather: It’s one of the driest places on Earth. Now images from space show “rarely seen” snowfall in the Chilean desert
Scientists attribute the unusually wet winter in Chile to the strengthening El Niño.
News Chile » Atacama » Weather: Weather Talk: Chile's Atacama Desert is driest place on Earth
Would you prefer to live in a place where it never rains or snows? You could live on the moon, but consider this: The driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. Along the coast of ...
News Chile » Atacama » Weather: Rare Snow Blankets the Desert This Summer
NASA noted that strengthening El Niño is providing the backdrop for the unusually wet winter in north-central Chile. While the Atacama is famous for its dryness, August 2026 delivered a dramatic ...