Satellite images taken over the past six weeks have captured the re-emergence of Tulare Lake in California’s San Joaquin Valley and show how suddenly water flooded and settled across miles of ...

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. -- Images from NASA show the revival of Tulare Lake after months of relentless rainfall in Central California. In Kings County, floodwaters are covering a large area of ...

These satellite images from NASA show the farmland west of Corcoran, a town of around 22,000, before and after flooding. In 1983, a record-setting year of rain, Tulare Lake reached its most recent ...

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. -- New satellite images from the NASA Earth Observatory show that Tulare Lake is still growing in Kings County. The pictures show the progression of the flooding between March ...

Tulare Lake as seen from an earth-orbiting satellite on Feb. 1, 2023, left, and on April 30, 2023, showing the increased flooding of the formerly dry lakebed from winter storms and spring snowmelt ...

Tulare Lake used to be the largest lake west of the Mississippi River. Farmers diverted the lake's water in the 1920s and replaced it with farmland. This year's rain and snowmelt have replenished ...

Roads and farms are being flooded outside Corcoran, Calif., where the vast Tulare Lake once existed.Credit...Mark Abramson for The New York Times Supported by By Soumya Karlamangla and Shawn ...

Still, even longtime residents have been staggered this year by the brute swiftness with which Tulare Lake has resurfaced: In less than three weeks, a parched expanse of 30 square miles has been ...