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Posted on 07/10/2025 11:38:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Lake Eyre (also called Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre) sits in the heart of the Australian outback, the continent's most arid area. Receiving an average of 140 millimeters (5.5 inches) of rain each year, the lake is a dry, salty plain much of the time. But every once in a while, it transforms into an expansive inland sea.
Approximately one-sixth of the Australian continent drains toward Lake Eyre, rather than to an ocean. Water often evaporates before it makes it there, although some will end up in the lake every few years. In 2025, extreme autumn rainfall in Queensland flooded several rivers that flow toward Lake Eyre. Since late March, these floodwaters have been coursing hundreds of kilometers through the desert.
Around the start of May, water arrived at Lake Eyre -- and then kept coming. This animation, composed of 16 images acquired with the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on NASA's Terra satellite, shows Lake Eyre's evolution from April 29 to June 12. The images are false-color to emphasize the presence of water...
This year's flood is shaping up to be quite the spectacle -- possibly on a scale not seen since 1974, local observers say. That was the last time Lake Eyre filled to capacity, and it reached a record depth of 6 meters (20 feet) that year.
Optimism around a complete fill in 2025 abounds, but rangers and area business owners told news outlets they do not anticipate it will quite reach that point. The lake has only filled completely three times in the past 160 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at earthobservatory.nasa.gov ...
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Lake Eyre, great salt lake in central South Australia, with a total area of 4,281 square miles (11,088 square km). It lies in the southwestern corner of the Great Artesian Basin, a closed inland basin about 440,150 square miles (1,140,000 square km) in area that is drained only by intermittent streams. Normally dry but susceptible to occasional flooding, the lake constitutes the lowest point on the Australian continent. Lake Eyre was first sighted by a European in 1840 -- English explorer and British colonial official Edward John Eyre, after whom it was named. The lake's extent had been determined by the 1870s.
Lake Eyre, the lowest part of which lies about 50 feet (15 metres) below sea level, consists of two sections, Lake Eyre North and Lake Eyre South. The sections, which together span an area 89.5 miles (144 km) long and 47.8 miles (77 km) wide, are joined by the narrow Goyder Channel.
Evidence from the western side of Lake Eyre strongly suggests that the present saline depression resulted from a downfaulting in Earth's surface about 30,000 years ago, which blocked off an earlier outlet to the sea. Water reaching the lake now evaporates very rapidly, and the surface of the lake bed has a thin crust of salt deposited by water that has evaporated. | Lake Eyre South, South Australia. Also called: Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre | Encyclopedia Britannica | Revised and updated by John P. Raffert | June 22, 2025
Wasn’t there a plan to cut a channel and make a harbor out of it?
I don’t see how that could work.
In addition to shrimp and crabs, the lakebed also starts sprouting little frogs that have lived there, just under the caked surface, in suspended animation for, years, even decades.
My guess is they need fresh water, not salt water.
Climate Change!
Yes, of course! And it will be DEVASTATING!
Millions will die!
Nope!!!
The lake fully filled three time in last 160 years.
Maybe, just maybe, it could happen 4th time.
There are some rare weather situations, rare, but occurring sometimes.
They happened before, always.
Now, all those are assigned to global warming and terrible consequences are predicted.
Wonder Hussy’s fault?
Wonder Hussy’s fault?
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