A rare deluge of rainfall in Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades. Two days of rainfall in September exceeded yearly averages in several areas that see less than 250 millimeters annually. In Tagounite, a village about 450 kilometers south of the capital, Rabat, more than 100 millimeters was recorded in a 24-hour period. Water gushing through the sands and oases left more than 20 dead in Morocco and Algeria and damaged farmers’ harvests.