Flowers Will Bloom in the driest place on Earth

Torrential rains and heavy snow that fell during the month of July in the driest place on planet Earth would soon bring the colorful wild flowers of rare plants have enough moisture to bloom.

For information, to obtain an average rainfall of 1 inch, Arica, a region in the northern Atacama desert in Chile takes up to 50 years. However, until July, he had to get up to 0.13 inches of rain. Figures 6 times higher than the average annual rainfall in the region.

If rainfall intensity is generally obtained only with short rains in other places in different parts of the Earth, but its effects if it occurs in the Atacama is spectacular.

"We estimate that the plants and insects in the region will be booming," said Pilar Cerecada, professor of biogeography at the University of Chile, the Associated Press, as quoted from Earth Week, August 10, 2011. "The possibility will be found a lot of interest in various places over there," he said.

Rainfall occurred in July it predicted would lead to a generally yellow flowers and purple would begin blooming in late August with a peak in September.