A lake that dried up 80 years ago looked set to reappear as monster rainfall accumulated over California's wet winter season overwhelms the state's rivers.
Even as spring appeared in the northern hemisphere, there was no let-up for America's most populous state, with forecasters predicting another 10cm of rain and up to 120cm of snow over the mountains.
"Increasingly serious high water prospects in what is shaping up to possibly be a record Kings River runoff season have led the US Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District to announce plans to begin a rare flood release into old Tulare Lakebed," said a statement from the King's River Conservation District .
Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake in the western United States, fed chiefly by snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada range.
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