A spectacular climate event brought heavy rain over southeastern Morocco and gave temporary rivers and lagoons in the Sahara to life. Towns as Merzouga and Tata, in Morocco, saw more than 100 mm of rain over the course of 24 hours; in some cases these rates even exceeded the yearly averages for a few of the driest places on Earth. It helped refill the critical groundwater reserves after years of drought and revitalized the dry lakebed of Lake Iriqui, which had remained barren for five decades. If left to the imagination, residents of the location look in awe at how cars drive through the flooded desert roads while tourists have managed to capture rare scenes of water flowing through once parched sands. As much as the rains will provide temporary relief, no one knows for how long these replenishments will balance out the persistent drought in agriculture and water supplies.