Snowfall in the Tropics

Le Piton de la Fournaise, a volcano on Reunion Island covered with snow via @Margoow33/

The tropical Island of La Réunion experienced a relatively rare snowfall on the top of the volcano, Piton de la fournaise on June 3. Linfo.re explains that [fr] the first snowfall on the island was observed in 1988 and the latest was in 2007.

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