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. Richard Fienberg, press officer for the American Astronomical Society, to the Associated Press.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.
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