A rare 10 mile long lake formed in death valley after heavy rains. I was out in death valley last week and was fortunate to photograph some unique scenes of the floods. Scotty s castle has been closed since a massive flood on october 18 2015 caused extensive damage to utilities buildings and bonnie clare road.
Death valley national park and death valley natural history association are offering a limited number of opportunities to visit scotty s castle to see the flood damage and learn about repairs. The soaking rain came from a very intense storm system tapping an atmospheric river as it moved into california tuesday night and wednesday with more than 1500 lightnings in just 5 minutes. Picture from floods in 2015 via youtube video below.
Death valley floods in march 2019. Flooding creates a 10 mile long lake in death valley the rare ephemeral lake was caused when the compacted dry desert soil wasn t able to absorb the 87 inches of rain that recently fell on the. Rgc man s death under investigation.
Naxiely lopez puente july 26 2020. Outages reported throughout valley flooding rains still expected. By pam wright march 12 2019 05 00 pm edt.
Death valley rain flooding creates rare 10 mile long lake. Heavy rain and flooding caused a rare lake to appear in california s death valley. Death valley has seen 1 56 inches of rain in 2019 or 66 percent of its.
Flooding was reported in death valley wednesday morning. Death valley is a dry climate but it can still flood.
