A Disturbance in the Force? Rare Snowfall Blankets Tataouine

treehugger.com 07 Feb '12, 7pm

A Disturbance in the Force? Rare Snowfall Blankets Tataouine

As any Star Wars fan can tell you, Luke Skywalker's planetary home of Tatooine is one of the driest, hottests worlds in that fictional galaxy far, far away -- but much closer to home, things are looking oddly frosty. In the real-life Tataouine, a Tunisian desert town nearby to where scenes from the 1977 blockbuster were filmed, unusually cold weather has brought rare snowfall not seen since, well, a long time ago . In describing the Tatooine of film, an angstful young Luke Skywalker once said "if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from." But maybe he'd think differently if he knew snowball-fights were a possibility. Tataouine on a hotter, more fictional evening. For the first time in half-a-century, yesterday folks living in rural towns along Tunisia's Sahara frontier were surprised to find their sprawling sand dunes and arid f...

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@JP_Woodlife » 15 Feb '12, 10am
RT @TentipiTents: Rare snowfall blankets Tunisian desert. Tataouine turns white. [link] #tunisia #climate #nature
@TentipiTents » 15 Feb '12, 10am
Rare snowfall blankets Tunisian desert. Tataouine turns white. [link] #tunisia #climate #nature
@robdavies » 09 Feb '12, 9am
Snow grips Tatooine. [link]
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@lemanzfromsudan » 08 Feb '12, 6pm
@Deanjst [link] first paragraph is jokes
@gionninanni » 08 Feb '12, 5pm
Neve in Tunisia ai bordi della frontiera sahariana [link] I love gw!
@pasternack » 08 Feb '12, 5pm
RT @bcmerchant: Disturbance in the force? Tatauoine more like Hoth, thx to #climate change [link] +1 for @s_messenger's mighty Star Wars puns
@cheff4u » 08 Feb '12, 5pm
Sweet, the world is ending. [link]
@russellkelly » 08 Feb '12, 10am
Climate change means more water on the move. Now snow in the desert where Star Wars was shot #auspol [link]
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@MaryToves » 07 Feb '12, 11pm
RT @s_messenger: A disturbance in the force? First snow in 50 years falls on real-life Tataouine [link]
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