http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=51312

NASA’s Earth Observatory took some sweet shots earlier this month, off the Terra satellite, of a record snowfall in South America’s Atacama Desert. This region, one of the driest in the world, received it’s largest snowfall in a half century - 32 inches. That’s 3.2 inches of rain, using the 10 to 1 conversion average. Contrast that with a yearly rainfall average of friggin 1-3 millimeters. As the EOS report states, this will be skewing that average upwards for a few years to come.

Thanks to the HuffPo for pointing this out to me today, completely missed the story when it was reported earlier this on the EOS site.