Ghost lake set to reappear as California hit again by rain

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A lake that dried up 80 years ago looked set to reappear, as monster rainfall accumulated over California's wet winter season overwhelms the state's rivers.

A California plate is seen at an area affected by floods after days of heavy rain in Pajaro, California, US, March 14, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

"Another significant event... on top of everything that has come before is going to cause some major problems," meteorologist Daniel Swain said on Twitter. "Releases growing to 1,500 cubic feet per second... will begin taking the flood flows to the former lakebed in Kings County. But as the area was developed for agriculture and rivers were diverted for irrigation, the lake shrank, and by the middle of the 20th century, it had become farmland.

The western United States has been pummeled by a train of atmospheric rivers -- moisture-laden ribbons that ferry water from the Pacific over land.

 

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