International Desk: A severe flood has occurred in a part of the Sahara desert, the world's largest desert located in North Africa. Recently, the Moroccan Meteorological Agency reported this information. Such floods are quite rare in the Sahara desert. In the meantime, several pictures and videos of desert floods have spread on social media. Climatologists believe that this is due to the adverse effects of climate change.

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The Guardian reported that it rained for two days in a row in the northeast of Morocco. This rainfall was much higher than average. The rain fell in Tagonit, a village 450 kilometers south of the capital Rabat.

Morocco's meteorological agency says one day in September rains 100 millimeters. This rain is record at this time. Then this month, the American space research agency NASA released the pictures of the Sahara desert taken by satellite.

NASA image shows Lake Iriqui in the Sahara. It is a dry lake located between the Zagora and Tata regions of the Sahara. And it is filled with water.

"We don't usually see so much rain in such a short period of time," said Hussein Youabeb, an official at the Moroccan Meteorological Agency. It happened 30 or 50 years ago.'

The Guardian reports that 18 people died in last month's floods in Morocco. The flood is causing great damage to Morocco without recovering from the damage caused by last year's earthquake.

The Sahara desert covers an area of ​​about 9 million km in North, Central and West Africa. Due to climate change crisis can occur here at any time.

In this regard, the Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization, Celeste Saulo, said, "As a result of the increase in temperature, the hydrological cycle has accelerated here. This Sahara is now an unexpected place for us. A lot of water can appear here now. It can also become completely dehydrated.'