Hutson said he witnessed the flooding of Tulare Lake in 1983 and 1997. This time around, he noticed one key difference: the flooding of Highway 43 along the southern San Joaquin Valley.

Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, was last full in 1878. Recent storms have flooded thousands of acres of farmland in the area. Striking images show rebirth of ...

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 ...

-- 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 2 and April 28.

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 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 ...

The NASA images are in false color to make the water appear more clearly: vegetation is green, bare ground is brown, and water is dark blue. Tulare Lake used to be one of the largest freshwater ...

The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley ... Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. Jake Bittle Staff Writer Published Mar 28, 2023.

Images from NASA’s Earth Observatory show how the once-extinct Tulare Lake has come back to life thanks to the series of atmospheric rivers that started hitting California in December 2022.

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 ...