Oct 27, 2023 10:37 PM
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https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth...ath-valley
EXCERPTS: An oasis teeming with ponds and wildflowers has formed at Death Valley National Park, one of the hottest and driest places in the world, following a major hurricane this summer. [...] "It is definitely a rare and special event," Death Valley National Park spokesperson Abby Wines told CNN. She added that this kind of precipitation event occurs only about once a decade.
The hurricane arrived in Death Valley on Aug. 19 and continued dousing the desert for 24 hours. Records indicate that 2.2 inches (5.6 centimeters) of rain was measured at Furnace Creek, a site inside the 5,270-square-mile (13,650 square kilometers) national park, breaking the previous record of 1.7 inches (4.3 cm), set in 2022, according to the National Park Service (NPS).
A month after the storm, park officials took a boat onto the ephemeral lake that had formed at Badwater Basin, a salt flat that marks the park's lowest point, and measured its depth at roughly 1 foot (0.3 meters). In the time since, the water has receded to only a few inches... (MORE - missing details)
Prehistoric Lake Manly is back. Jenni floating on Badwater Basin! (Oct 20, 2023) ... https://youtu.be/Jhuan82gx9o
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Jhuan82gx9o
EXCERPTS: An oasis teeming with ponds and wildflowers has formed at Death Valley National Park, one of the hottest and driest places in the world, following a major hurricane this summer. [...] "It is definitely a rare and special event," Death Valley National Park spokesperson Abby Wines told CNN. She added that this kind of precipitation event occurs only about once a decade.
The hurricane arrived in Death Valley on Aug. 19 and continued dousing the desert for 24 hours. Records indicate that 2.2 inches (5.6 centimeters) of rain was measured at Furnace Creek, a site inside the 5,270-square-mile (13,650 square kilometers) national park, breaking the previous record of 1.7 inches (4.3 cm), set in 2022, according to the National Park Service (NPS).
A month after the storm, park officials took a boat onto the ephemeral lake that had formed at Badwater Basin, a salt flat that marks the park's lowest point, and measured its depth at roughly 1 foot (0.3 meters). In the time since, the water has receded to only a few inches... (MORE - missing details)
Prehistoric Lake Manly is back. Jenni floating on Badwater Basin! (Oct 20, 2023) ... https://youtu.be/Jhuan82gx9o