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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 ...
Badwater Basin, an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, was flooded by Hurricane Hilary in August 2023 and recent rains in California. It is the lowest point in North America, at 282 ...
Two months after a storm that dropped a year's rainfall in a single day, visitors to the national park are encountering a a strange place made stranger — and more majestic.
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.
Aug. 20 was the park’s “rainiest day ever,” rangers said.
Lake Manly was a pluvial lake in Death Valley, California.It forms occasionally in Badwater Basin after heavy rainfall, but at its maximum extent during the so-called "Blackwelder stand," ending approximately 120,000 years before present, the lake covered much of Death Valley with a surface area of 1,600 square kilometres (620 sq mi).
Death Valley’s Badwater Basin As a powerful atmospheric river storm hit California, it created a lake in one of America's driest regions, providing an "extremely rare" chance for kayaking.
Hilary, now downgraded to a post-tropical storm, marches northward, prompting flood watches and warnings in half a dozen states