Rare, Widespread Snow in the Atacama Desert
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Back-to-back winter storms in August 2026 brought rare, widespread snowfall to northern Chile's Atacama Desert, stretching from the Andes to near the Pacific coast.
Back-to-back winter storms in August 2026 brought snowfall to northern Chile, from the Andes to near the Pacific coast.
Summary by NASA, the primary source