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Or above various cities around the globe. Location on the planet specified by latitude, The last time there was major flooding in the Tulare Lake basin, after a very wet winter of 1982-83, the drying-out process in the lakebed took about two years.Īs of last week, large swaths of acreage west and south of the city of Corcoran were under water so too were large plots of land in the southern end of the lakebed.Welcome to Earth and Moon Viewer and Solar System Explorer.Įarth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the “The lakebed contains farms that produced cotton, tomatoes, dairy, safflower, pistachios, wheat, and almonds.” “Flooding in the lakebed is likely to continue into 2024, which will affect residents and farmers in the area, as well as some of the most productive cropland in the Central Valley,” NASA reported on its Earth Observatory website. Record snowfall in the southern Sierra Nevada will continue to send water from the mountains into the Valley’s major rivers - the San Joaquin, Kings, Kaweah, Tule and Kern rivers, producing more runoff than dams will likely be able to manage and contributing to flooding on parts of the Valley floor, including Tulare Lake. Tulare Lake fed by a record Sierra Nevada snowpack But by the late 1800s it had been pretty much dried up as water from major rivers that fed it was diverted for farming uses and the lakebed was increasingly reclaimed for agriculture.īut the ancient low-lying land has remained susceptible to periodic resurrection from floods during wet years of the 20th century and into the 21st century.

Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, encompassing as much as 790 square miles in what is now Kings and Tulare counties. 1, when only a few patches of land had been filled with storm runoff, and April 30, by which time large stretches of acreage within the lakebed had been flooded.

Images from NASA satellites orbiting the earth clearly show the stark changes in the lake between Feb. Within a matter of a few months, this winter’s series of atmospheric river storms that drenched central California and the spring snowmelt from the southern Sierra Nevada range are fueling the re-emergence of the usually-dry Tulare Lake in Kings and Tulare counties - to the point where it is now plainly visible from space.