{"id":13160,"date":"2024-04-14T23:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T23:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13160"},"modified":"2024-04-20T23:05:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T23:05:53","slug":"super-bloom-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/04\/14\/super-bloom-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bloom 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/other\/death-valley-is-alive-this-year-a-super-bloom-is-the-latest-sign\/ar-BB1lywk2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Death Valley is alive this year. A super bloom is the latest sign.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Reis Thebault, Alice Li, Bridget Bennett<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2024 Super Bloom at Death Valley &amp; Las Vegas 4\/13\/2024\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fPRAoOWkriI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TECOPA, Calif. \u2014 Sometimes the desert holds its secrets close, whispering them only to those who carefully listen. But this year, the hottest and driest place in America might as well be shouting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In California\u2019s Death Valley region, the last few months have been remarkably loud. And the latest bellow is still ringing out, with the area\u2019s native wildflowers bursting into bloom. The flowers have filled a place best known for its shades of browns and grays with brilliant blasts of yellow and purple and sprinkles of pink and cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This roaring display comes just weeks after the resurrection of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/03\/01\/death-valley-lake-california-rain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a long-dead lake<\/a>, which filled the park\u2019s Badwater Basin and drew visitors from across the country for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to paddle across a body of water rarely revived since prehistoric days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These fleeting phenomena can both be traced to the unusual and record-setting precipitation that has inundated the state since August, when Hurricane Hilary gave Death Valley its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/03\/01\/death-valley-lake-california-rain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wettest day ever<\/a>. Subsequent storms dumped even more rain on the desert, eventually\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dragging it out<\/a>\u00a0of a years-long megadrought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/other\/death-valley-is-alive-this-year-a-super-bloom-is-the-latest-sign\/ar-BB1lywk2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post Death Valley is alive this year. A super bloom is the latest sign. by Reis Thebault, Alice Li, Bridget Bennett TECOPA, Calif. \u2014 Sometimes the desert holds its secrets close, whispering them only to those who carefully listen. But this year, the hottest and driest place in America might as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}