They don’t mention it specifically, but, it is your fault. After being told California was in permanent drought
‘Extremely rare event:’ Satellite images show lake formed in famously dry Death Valley
Kayakers and nature lovers are flocking to Death Valley National Park in California to enjoy something exceedingly rare at one of the driest places in the United States: Water.
A temporary lake has bubbled up in the park’s Badwater Basin, which lies 282 feet below sea level. What is typically a dry salt flat at the bottom of Death Valley has for months been teeming with water after record rains and flooding have battered eastern California since August.
In the past six months, a deluge of storms bringing record amounts of rain led to the lake’s formation at the park ? one of the hottest, driest and lowest-elevation places in North America, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Satellite images from NASA show how the lake formed in August in the aftermath of Hurricane Hilary. Though it gradually shrank, it persisted throughout the fall and winter before it was filled back up by another strong Californian storm earlier this month, known as an atmospheric river.
And we all know that the atmospheric rivers are due to you driving a fossil fueled vehicle and eating meat.
This is been forming since July
(ABC News) At its peak, Lake Manly once held up to 700 feet of water. Currently, at about 6 miles long, 3 miles wide and 1 foot deep, the temporary lake in Badwater Basin is deep enough to kayak in, a “rare opportunity,” Wines said in a statement on Friday.
Lake Manly was a lake back during the last glacial age.
The last time the lake filled up was in 2005. Back then, it took about a week after it formed to dry up and had not filled up, Wines said.
So, this does happen periodically.
So far, it’s only a few randos directly blaming this on you
As California is bombarded with more rain & headed for a 2nd straight winter of record precipitation (including snow), just years after they told us Global Warning/Climate Change was causing permanent drought, here are the “devastating” impacts on Death Valley BEFORE this storm… pic.twitter.com/IzC36nmiDg
— John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) February 19, 2024
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