Rippey said crops in the vineyards and orchards, like nuts and berries, will likely sustain more damage than row crops since entire trees and vines will need to be replanted. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated the damage from flooding across central California between December 2022 and March 2023 will cost roughly $4.6 billion. Citizens of the Planet / Contributor / Getty Images Tulare Lake has flooded many farms in California. In 2019, Tulare County churned out more than $7.5 billion worth of commodities, including dairy products, table grapes, navel oranges, and cattle. Many of the state's top agricultural commodities are grown in Tulare County, which is the third largest agricultural producing-county in the state. That's enough to fill over 1.5 million Olympic-sized swimming pools. While it's unclear how deep Tulare Lake is now, if it's similar to its former average depth of about 30 feet, that would translate to more than one trillion gallons of water that have flooded the region so far this year, Rippey said. One acre-foot, the amount of water it takes to cover an acre of land to a depth of one foot, is equal to 325,851 gallons of water, United States Department of Agriculture meteorologist Brad Rippey told Insider in July. Geological Survey and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview.Īs of June, the flooded parts of Tulare Lake spanned about 178 square miles, or 113,920 acres - almost the size of Lake Tahoe. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. This series of images shows the rapid progression of the flooding between March 2 and April 28.
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