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Downtown Los Angeles had received 8.51 inches (216 mm) of rain from February 4–6 making it the second wettest three-day span. [20] Following 1.66 in (42 mm) of rain in Death Valley in 72 hours, California State Route 190 was closed and the park experienced a setback in the recovery from Hurricane Hilary.
Death Valley got 1.66 inches of rain earlier this week, the National Weather Service said early Wednesday in a 72-hour precipitation report. A temporary lake at Badwater Basin is rare, according ...
In Death Valley National Park, workers began clearing and assessing the damaged roads and infrastructure after the rains ended. Late on August 21, crews reopened SR 190 to allow an exit for those who stayed in the park during the floods; however, the road was not opened fully until October 15, marking the longest ever closure in the park's history.
Hilary, now downgraded to a post-tropical storm, marches northward, prompting flood watches and warnings in half a dozen states Tropical Storm Hilary – live: Death Valley gets one year’s rain ...
Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is thought to be the hottest place on Earth during summer. [3] Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. [1]
In several hours, Death Valley National Park received a record 1.7 inches of rain — about three-quarters of its typical annual total. The 1-in-1,000 year storm, as weather forecasters would ...
Rainfall in Death Valley totaled 1.70 inches (43 mm), setting a new (since surpassed) single-day rainfall record; [74] the amount was around 75 percent of the area's annual average precipitation. [75] After the storm, the Federal Highway Administration gave $11.7 million to the National Park Service to fix roads in the park following the ...
As Death Valley dries off from near record rains, some see the fingerprints of climate change Destructive rain in Death Valley, flooded Vegas casinos mark a summer of extreme weather Skip to main ...