This phantom lake in California is back with a vengeance
www.popsci.com
The 2023 winter storms in California dumped historic precipitation in the Tulare Lake basin, causing floods that will last for months and maybe years.
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Sailor_Rout on 2025-06-09 06:51:14+00:00.

Original Title: TIL California once had the largest freshwater lake in the Western USA, Lake Tulare, which at its peak stretched from modern Fresno to Bakersfield. It was ultimately drained as the rivers feeding it were diverted for agriculture in the 19th and 20th century.