Posted on 04/24/2020 3:40:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Orange County and the Inland Empire went from having half of normal rainfall at the end of February to 90% or more today, he said.
That ignited a bloom.
Sure, the bloom isn’t as dramatic as it was last year, when a rare superbloom lit up social media and drove hundreds of thousands to travel to Riverside County, where Lake Elsinore’s Walker Canyon offered miles of rolling hills painted brilliant orange.
But 2020 went from being a disappointment to an above-average wildflower year, said Naomi Fraga, director of conservation programs at the 86-acre California Botanic Garden in Claremont.
(Excerpt) Read more at pe.com ...
Huntington Beach residents Jason Brown and Mary Durham enjoy a hillside of blooming Garland daisies as they hike along Weir Canyon Trail in Santiago Oaks Regional Park in Anaheim Hills on Wednesday, April 22, 2020.
(Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Aren’t those people violating Newsoms lockdown?
Arrest them now!!!
Its GLOBUL WARMING!
I see the wild flowers but I also see rattlesnakes. Keep the flowers.
April showers will bring wildfires.
All this will dry out in July and August and provide tinder for the dry season fires.
LOL! THAT is awesome! Applies to so many of our Dem Governors these days.
I don’t even have to BE anywhere and I’m 100% FED UP with this self-inflicted economic disaster!
Arizona is seeing the same thing.
How true! Those beautiful wildflowers are weeds!
And in a matter of a couple weeks, it turns to tinder brown weeds, sage and wildfire fuel....
Hey, 2 yrs in a row! Must be global warming. /S
“Seems it never rains in Southern California,
seems I’ve often heard that kind of talk before.
It never rains in California,
but girl. don’t they warn-ya:
It pours, man, it pours.”
/At least according to Albert Hammond, Sr...
Noooo! Burn it down! Burn it down!
Three. The wildflowers covering Camp Pendleton in early Spring 2018 were just spectacular. Unfortunately, what others have written was also true: by May, early summer heat and drying winds had withered them all.
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