Rare Rain in the Sahara Desert:
A rare deluge of rainfall has flooded palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert in Morocco.The rain was triggered by the northward shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), which has moved further north than usual, resulting in equatorial-like downpours in the Sahara.ITCZ has produced a powerful extratropical cyclone that swept through northwestern Africa.
An extra-tropical cyclone is a low-pressure system which develops in latitudes outside the tropics which can bring heavy rainfall.
