Recently, 2017 and 2018 claimed the hottest average temperatures in Death Valley history!
"Patrick Taylor, chief of education and interpretation, says he's never seen a lake of this size near Salt Creek in this six years he has worked in the park.This might not sound like a lot of rain, but NWS meteorologist Todd Lericos explains the desert landscape doesn't easily absorb water. From the road, one can see water, but due to the general vastness of Death Valley and the scale of … “Flash flooding can happen even where it is not raining. The 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes ... extending northeast and then east from the SAF's "Big Bend" to the Death Valley Fault near the Nevada state line, passing Ridgecrest about fifteen miles to the south. 2:29 PM, Jul. However, he could not reach the Basin because of this other, larger lake along Salt Creek.Prince Harry urges travel industry to 'build back better' after pandemicChild fortunate to escape without injury after being run overStunning images show a 10-mile-long lake, (pictured), that formed after torrential downpours last March in Death Valley, California, which is one of North America's hottest and driest locationsAlarming moment 'drug users' are passed out in street outside TescoMcGucken was hoping to photograph Badwater Basin where he thought water might have also accumulated, but he couldn't access the area due to flooding and stumbled upon the ethereal lakePhotographer Elliott McGucken was in Death Valley to photograph the storm and its aftermath on March 7, when he happened upon the temporary lake and started shooting.Shocking woman pregnant woman crashes her ex-boyfriends wedding'Flash flooding can happen even where it is not raining. 'Published by Associated Newspapers LtdMcCucken said of taking the images: 'I was not too surprised that it took a couple hours to hike to the water's edge, as the lake grew and grew, until it did indeed become quite vast.I had planned to visit and photograph Badwater Basin that day, but the flooding had closed the roads leading out that way.Prime suspect in murder of British safari lodge owner is arrestedPart of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group'There's an irony even though I couldn't get down to Badwater Basin. From the road, it looks like it stretched from approximately Harmony Borax Works to Salt Creek right after the rain, which is a little less than 10 road miles.Patrick Taylor, chief of education and interpretation, claimed that he had never seen a lake of that size near Salt Creek in the six years he has worked in the park'In composing the photograph, I set the horizon at the golden cut in the height of the panorama, thusly using the golden ratio in the composition--a classical technique in art oft referred to as the 'divine proportion. Death Valley National Park.
The area is the hottest and driest spot in North America. Death Valley, the hottest and driest place in North America, isn't exactly known for record rainfall or pop-up lakes stretching as far as the eye can see. Normally dry creeks or arroyos can become flooded due to rainfall upstream.”
Death Valley, the hottest and driest place in North America, isn't exactly known for record rainfall or pop-up lakes stretching as far as the eye can see.But there are some pretty amazing sights to be enjoyed when the rains do show up. LA-based photographer Elliot McGucken captured photos of the water on March 7, 2019.