In a rare occurrence, heavy rainfall hit the Sahara Desert this month and was captured ... the region was hit by an extratropical cyclone — a type of storm that is not categorized as a tropical ...

The before-and-after photos included satellite images of the Sahara Desert, known as the ... inhibiting tropical cyclone development." As of mid-September, there have been only seven named storms ...

"The algal bloom stretched around 300 km across the surface of the ocean on the weekend, in the same region where Tropical Cyclone Zelia ... with declassified images from US spy satellites.