Death Valley's lake is still there (at least a little of it, probably)

 

Heavy rains in California drained into the basin that is named Death Valley, and there's still a lake there, named Lake Manly.  According to latest reports, the inevitable drying of the lake has taken away a lot of its surface area, so catch while it's still there, if it is.

California rains resurrect a long-dead lake in dry Death Valley

"Thanks to the record-setting rain that has washed over California during the last six months, Lake Manly — which dried up thousands of years ago — has reformed on the floor of Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America. This unlikely and exceedingly rare comeback is a message from the warming climate, which baked the region in a years-long megadrought and has now flooded it with rain.

At the same time, it is delighting visitors, park rangers and the scientists who have devoted their careers to studying Death Valley and have called the lake’s reappearance one of the most spectacular natural phenomena they have ever witnessed. But perhaps most profoundly, it shows that the desert is a dynamic place, home to complex and vibrant ecosystems — not the desolate and barren expanse of popular imagination."

Lake Manly even has it's own Website!

Here's a view from when it was still there, in January 2024.