Will Tulare Lake ever come back?

Tulare Lake, which refilled for the first time in 40 years after atmospheric river storms pummeled California , will take at least a year to evaporate entirely, experts said. The once-dormant California lake resurrected in this year's extreme sequence of storms won't disappear anytime soon.



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