Arizona Highways on Instagram: “We’re still enjoying a look back to last week and the snow that fell on the Sonoran Desert. Even Tonto National Monument got a dusting, as…”

The best national parks and destinations to visit in the desert in the wintertime. Winter in desert is an enchanting experience that rewards visitors with quiet, solitude, snow-dusted cacti, powdered canyon walls and the striking contrast of snow on fiery rock.

The weather was flipped Wednesday throughout much of the U.S. West, with snow falling on cactuses in the Arizona desert and Anchorage seeing balmy weather - at least by Alaska standards.

Snow is covering sand dunes in the Sahara Desert at Ain Sefra, Algeria for the second winter in a row after snowfall wasn't reported over the last 40 years. These pictures tell the story!

For the third time in less than 2 months, snow and frost covered the arid desert in northwestern Saudi Arabia. Just another anomalous weather phenomenon in February 2017.

It’s quite a time for weird weather, and it doesn’t get much weirder than snow falling in one of the hottest places in the world.