A New Year’s snowstorm transformed the Grand Canyon’s South Rim into a picture-perfect winter wonderland.

According to a post on the Grand Canyon National Park’s Facebook page,

“It often snows on the North and South Rims during the winter. What is not so common is for it to be cold enough for the snow to reach the bottom of Grand Canyon.”

The park also wrote that it expected the snow to melt soon as dry weather sweeps in over the weekend and into next week.

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