The Sahara is submerged under a meter of snow

The world's hottest desert is experiencing the biggest snowfall ever since the one-meter-thick white snow covered the red sand dunes.

Unusual snowfall turns the Sahara desert year-round into a winter country, bringing excitement to the locals, according to Sun.

Snow began to fall just before Christmas when the scrawny snowflakes fell on the world's red hot desert sand for the first time in nearly four decades.

The biggest snowfall in history covered Ain Sefra town, dubbed the "Gateway to the desert" under a meter of snow.

The weather caused chaos in the town when bus passengers were stuck because of the frozen road.

Children enjoy cold weather by building snowmen.

Photographer Sekkouri Kamel recorded a strange scene when snow started to fall around 1:30 am January 20. "I was amazed to see so much snow in the desert," Kamel said.

Tuyet has never fallen in town since February 18, 1979, after the storm lasted half an hour.

Snow phenomenon also occurs in many areas with warm climates like Majorca and Benidorm, Spain.

The Sahara covers much of North Africa and has experienced many changes in temperature and humidity over the past few hundred thousand years.Although the Sahara is very dry today, experts predict that the desert will turn green again in about 15,000 years.

Earlier, temperatures in other parts of the desert, including Algeria, Chad, Libya, Mali and Morocco exceeded 47 degrees Celsius.