5/21/2023 0 Comments Into the Blue by Robert Goddard![]() These images are false color, which makes the water (dark blue) stand out from its surroundings. The image on the left-acquired by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9-shows the same area on February 1, before significant flooding started. ![]() The image above (right), acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows flooded farm fields in the lakebed on April 30, 2023. The lakebed has since been covered with farms that produce a variety of crops and livestock.īut after two major storms hit southern California in March 2023, water once again returned to Tulare. Since the 1920s, the rivers that fed the lake have been dammed and diverted for agriculture and other uses. Close to the middle of that bowl is the historic lakebed of Tulare Lake, which was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. ![]() ![]() The San Joaquin Valley sits like a bowl at the base of the southern Sierra. ![]()
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