Abundant rain and mountain snow have spurred a 'super bloom apocalypse.'
By Ian Livingston Ian Livingston Email Bio Follow March 21 at 2:56 PM California may never have seen a super bloom like this before. Although it’s been only two years since the last one, locals say this one is even better.
Abundant rain and mountain snow are again responsible for this year’s bloom. The past winter ranked 47th-wettest on record in California. This followed a rather dry start to winter and a fall full of wildfires. “[T]his is something unlike anything we have ever experienced . . . and may never again,” according to the Facebook page of the city of Lake Elsinore, one of the ground zero locations of this Poppypalooza.
Most of those folks flocked to Walker Canyon, which was even closed for a time because of overcrowding. Images of the color-sprayed hills are particularly stunning given the huge coverage of poppies. Those California blue skies don’t hurt either.Visitors walk through poppy fields during a super bloom in Lake Elsinore, Calif.
San Francisco Gate reported the painted lady butterfly species is migrating north with the bloom, which last happened in 2005.
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