Death Valley's temporary lake continues to draw visitors, but it's already shrinking

Death Valley's temporary lake continues to draw visitors, but it's already shrinking

[@terigeorge3944]

Wow incredible 🎉🎉

[@Somewondude]

death valley has a lot to offer you'd be surprised. i went 5 weeks ago...i recommend it.

[@danlowe8684]

Not once in a generation, girlfriend: Under more typical conditions, Badwater Basin is a vast and mostly dry salt flat-an expanse of approximately 200 square miles (520 square kilometers) lined with sodium chloride, calcite, gypsum, and borax. It is the lowest point in North America at 282 feet (86 meters) below sea level. The basin was once submerged by the much larger Lake Manly, one of several Great Basin lakes that existed during the cooler, wetter Pleistocene Epoch. Today, it is uncommon but not unheard of for lakes to form in Badwater Basin. For example, storms and exceptionally rainy seasons filled in part of the basin in 2005, 2015, and 2019. There is no outflow from the basin, but evaporation rates far outpace precipitation rates, rendering the lakes ephemeral. While park officials cannot be sure, they speculate the current lake may dry up as soon as mid-November. From: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photograph by K. Bott/NPS. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

[@skullandbones1832]

💙

[@lisalastnamesmith]

That lake used a hall iron ore

[@leonardsmith2198]

The flowers will bloom this spring.

[@handbananaistherapist642]

Tropical Storm hilary

[@bulletscreenprinting]

Why on earth would they prevent kayaking. Beg the f@ck out of the way