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Feb 2, 2024 · Storms this weekend could bring extreme precipitation to other parts of the state, but most flood impacts aren’t expected to linger as long. Today, the Tulare Lake is shrinking rapidly,...
Apr 25, 2024 · In the century since the lake dried up, it has refilled a handful of times with disastrous results. Last year, the Tulare region—part of Central California’s San Joaquin Valley—was inundated with rain, flooding over 100,000 acres. Projected damages were immense. Nearby farms were looking at over $300 million in losses.
Jul 3, 2023 · “We’re out of the woods for this year,” Deirdre Des Jardins, an independent water researcher, told the Los Angeles Times, warning that next year could bring “extreme precipitation”.
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Aug 8, 2023 · The number one way water leaves Tulare Lake, however, is evaporation. At the bottom of Tulare Lake is the Corcoran Clay, which prevents water from seeping into the groundwater, keeping it at the surface. This year, 2023, the lake filled after historic precipitation in March and April.
Jun 29, 2023 · However, “next year could be a strong El Nino year, in which case there would be an elevated risk of the kind of extreme precipitation we had in the strong El Nino year of 1982-83.” “There needs...
- Susanne Rust
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Jun 25, 2023 · June 25, 2023. It sounds like the sea and approaches the size of Lake Tahoe. Its wind-driven waves are unexpectedly silky and warm. Tulare Lake seems to go on forever on the immense brown and ...
Jun 7, 2023 · An archival photo originally published by historian and columnist F.F. Latta, upper left, in the Hanford Sentinel. Tulare Lake, the ghost lake that’s re-emerged in Kings County for the first time since the 1990s, has reached an eye popping 170 square miles in size. Although that’s roughly the size of Lake Tahoe, it’s still a fraction of ...
