The unusually heavy rain that\u2019s fallen across San Diego County is causing eye-catching flowers to sprout at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and might be a precursor to a superbloom.<\/p>\n
The park, located 73 miles northeast of San Diego, averages less than 7 inches of rain over a one-year period. Anza Borrego has recorded 6 inches since August, partly because the summer monsoon produced a lot of precipitation. Storms have occurred on and off since then.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings are looking pretty darned green,\u201d said Kirsten Dutcher, director of the desert research center that UC Irvine runs at the park. \u201cWe had a small fall bloom, which is unusual. If we continue to get winter rain, we could end up having a substantial bloom. Right now, there\u2019s a lot of chinchweed and verbena.\u201d<\/p>\n
The term superbloom refers to a phenomenon in which huge numbers of wildflowers bloom simultaneously, creating a spectacular sight across the floor of deserts and other arid territories. Dutcher says the right combination of water, sun, winds and temperatures has to occur to produce one.<\/p>\n
Anza-Borrego hasn\u2019t had a major superbloom since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The unusually heavy rain that\u2019s fallen across San Diego County is causing eye-catching flowers to sprout at Anza-Borrego…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":503797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,20161,746,1370,728,50,3549,3550,7264,7289,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-503796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-east-county","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-san-diego-county","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-top-stories-sdut","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115865357222783694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}