The Atacama desert, Chile, is awash with color after a year of extreme rainfall.

These areas can go for years without a drop of rainfall, but after a rainy boom for the region, heavy thunderstorms brought 2.43cm of rain in one part of the Atacama region in March alone.

This doesn’t seem like much, but it had huge event with 14 years of rain experienced in one day. Flooding killed nine people, followed by the most spectacular blossoming of the past 18 years.