Wildflowers Are Popping Up Across the Western United States
A wet winter in parts of California and Arizona means an epic wildflower season. In some areas the so-called “superbloom” can be seen from space.
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An Unusual ‘Superbloom’ is Happening in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Here’s Why
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /NBC7 San Diegoby Renee Schmiedeberg and Joe LittleThe deserts of San Diego County are alit with wildflowers.
Record rains have fallen over most of San Diego County, and as of recently, the same is true of the desert.
It’s been an unusual bloom in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Why? Uncommon summer monsoons in September of last year triggered the first fall blooms, pulling blankets of violet sand verbena up over the desert dunes, according to Jim Dice, Reserve Manager at the University of California, Irvine’s Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center in Borrego Springs.
Fires, Floods and More: A View of California From Space In 2019
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Gayle Falkenthal /CALmattersThe year began amid the ashes of the deadliest wildfire in California history. Then came torrential rains, the superbloom, a marine heat wave, and fires again.
They are events that foreshadow a future pattern of more extreme wildfires and rainstorms as climate change drives the Earth’s temperatures higher. The 2019 events prompted now familiar responses from politicians confronted with catastrophe across the state: disaster relief money, funding for scientific studies, and recriminations against bankrupt utility Pacific Gas and Electric.
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