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University of California, Irvine Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center. Located in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park - Borrego Springs, CA
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Snow on the mountains all around Borrego Springs, while there is an abundance of flowers in the valley below (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Coachella Valley floor got 1-2 inches more rain during Hilary compared to the Borrego Valley (we are one valley south) of Coachella. Resulting in a much bigger display of purple verbena & desert sunflowers. This dune wildflower scene from yesterday afternoon (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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A desert lily (hesperocallis undulata) which just started flowering here deep into the Borrego Badlands. Many still in early flowering stages (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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The ocotillos responded to Hillary's deep soaking rains by leafing out in just a couple of days! (Photos: Sicco Rood).
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Even the Borrego Badlands received over half an inch of rain in the last storm, with closer to an inch or more in the western part of the valley. There were rainbows, flowers, and mountain snow views this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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There are still abundant carpets of desert sand verbena throughout the Borrego valley as seen here looking towards the San Ysidro Mountains (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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A flowering ocotillo with spillover from this week's stormfront over the San Ysidro mountains yesterday afternoon (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Yesterday's haboob as seen from along Hwy 78 east of Split Mountain Road in Ocotillo Wells (Photo: Ranger Cameron Dice).
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Field work day on the Abandoned Farmland Project. This project led by UCI Nature assesses the potential for abandoned farmlands to be restored to a natural state that minimizes dust & maximizes ecological values. And yes, lots of new flower growth (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Desert sand verbena can now be found blooming all over the Borrego valley and further east into the Borrego Badlands (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Great cloud cover this morning led to just a brief sunrise. Desert purple verbena flowers and one small bouquet of dune evening primrose in the foreground, east of the valley (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Bighorn ewe in its element on Yaqui Peak, snow still visible on Palomar Mountain in the distance (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Desert purple verbena flowers and dune evening primroses. Santa Rosa Mountains in the background (Photos: Sicco Rood).
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A spectacular sunrise in the desert this morning before the sun moved behind the clouds (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Great stacked lenticular cloud formations from today's storm as seen from Coachella Valley (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Dune with flower scene in Borrego Badlands this morning with partly cloudy skies at sunrise (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Yesterday a group of 3 bighorn rams foraging on the lower desert mountain sides (Photos: Sicco Rood).
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Lenticular lens cloud rings above this ocotillo near the Reserve last Saturday (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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The full moon setting behind the San Ysidro Mountains this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Another sandy desert sunflower and purple verbena scene, with the San Ysidro Mountains in the distance (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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A great rainbow at sunrise this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Two young bighorn sheep on Yaqui Peak earlier this year (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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At least 3 roads into Borrego are closed, with the S22 probably the most affected with mud and debris. Here you can see minor flooding from San Felipe Creek into Texas Dip earlier this evening as well as Coyote Creek, which was flowing all the way to the Borrego Sink.
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Snow observed falling currently, not sticking at below 1000 feet above sea level I'm the Anza-Borrego desert.
@NWSSanDiego
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Like Kay last year, Hilary dropped around 2" of rain around here, so the fragrant monsoonal chinch-weed (Pectis papposa var. papposa) is now flowering and now covers much of the Borrego Valley area, from the Borrego Sink to the hillsides in the Badlands (Photos: Sicco Rood).
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A few more rainbows from the last storm on the 22nd of March. The desert has not been this green since 2019 (Photos: Sicco Rood).
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Two parents keeping a dozen or so baby quail together this morning in the wash by on the Reserve (Video: Sicco Rood).
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Lunar rainbow or moonbow above Anza-Borrego just moments ago. Made possible by the waxing gibbous moon and some rain sprinkles above the desert tonight
@NWSSanDiego
@SanDiegoWCMwx
(Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Sunrise this morning above the Reserve. Overnight snow on Chief Rain-in-the-Face (Indianhead Peak) and the Santa Rosa Mountains (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Cholla cactus forest, with a barrel cactus and ocotillo at the end of the most recent storm. Grapevine Mountain in the distance (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Purple verbena, desert sunflowers and dune evening primroses just before sunrise yesterday morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Purple desert sand verbena and a dead mesquite tree. Toro Peak in the background (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Above Culp Canyon, looking east at sunset (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Coyote Creek flowing about 4.5 miles beyond the mouth of the canyon yesterday (video: Sicco Rood).
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On the drive south on new years day before driving up The Grapevine, looking towards the snowy Tehachapi Mountains, these beautiful
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wavy clouds showed up briefly right before sunset
@NWSSanDiego
@StormHour
@sdutKrier
(Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Henderson Canyon with clouds draping the mountains. The flower field in the foreground last Friday morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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With cooler weather we continue to see much snow all around Borrego Springs on the mountains above 5000 feet and at the same time see the desert flowers on dunes below (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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The moon setting behind the pink clouds and San Ysidro Mountains this morning was beautiful as well (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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A black-tailed jackrabbit with a split ear in the Borrego Sink (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Impressive set of lenticular clouds at sunset this evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).
@NWSSanDiego
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Agave stalks in San Felipe Wash yesterday evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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A desert lily flowering, the wavy blue-green leaves pointing east, showing where the predominant winds coming from (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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An ocotillo with a hawk in it, shown here in front of the rising full moon yesterday evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Hummingbird nest update. One minute both hummingbirds are in the nest, and the next minute, perhaps aided by the wind, one of the fledglings left the nest and was perched on a creosote branch. Mom continued feeding both (Video: Sicco Rood).
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On this dusty day in the desert, a new plant has joined the others already flowering....Desert dandelions (malacothrix glabrata) (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Desert purple verbena on a dune (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Mojave yucca and snow at Culp Valley yesterday (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Snowing in the mountains above 4000 feet and sticking to the road above 4500 feet at this hour (video: Sicco Rood).
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Purple verbena growing out of dried mud cracks at sunrise this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Desert snow scene in the Anza-Borrego Desert at sunrise (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Great horned owl sitting in a palm tree this morning near the Reserve (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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A lenticular or perhaps shelf cloud at sunset this evening with an ocotillo (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Desert purple verbena flowers and dune evening primroses leaning towards the light (Photos: Sicco Rood).
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Beavertail cacti (Opuntia basilaris basilaris) are starting to flower all around the valley this week (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Bighorn lambs playtime on Chief Rain-in-the-face, Indianhead Peak of Anza-Borrego Desert this morning! (Video: Sicco Rood).
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Spectacular brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) bloom this spring. An ocean of yellow flowers today in the canyons (such as Indian Canyon shown here) of Anza-Borrego. Peaking now between 1500-3000 feet. (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Full moon AKA "strawberry moon" this evening rising over the Fish Creek Mountains in Anza-Borrego Desert (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Lenticular clouds above Borrego Springs (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Remnants of a pier at the Salton Sea yesterday morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Another sunrise pic from yesterday morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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The few clouds and the sunrise created some wonderful crepuscular rays this morning (Photos: Sicco Rood).
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As the clouds were lifting from around the Reserve this morning. Almost another inch of rain fell in the past two days on the western mountain side of the valley (Photos: Sicco Rood).
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Desert sunflowers (Geraea canescens) growing out of dried mud in Coyote Creek (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Sunrise this morning as seen from above Culp Canyon. Salton Sea and the Borrego Buttes in the distance (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Borrego Palm Canyon Creek is still running 1.5 miles past the mouth of the canyon in the middle of the day. Fields of purple, white, and yellow flowers close to the canyon (Photos: Sicco Rood).
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Moon setting a few days ago behind Dry Canyon (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Henderson Canyon flower field under dark overcast skies Wednesday late afternoon (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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At this time snow/hail mix at 2200 feet above sea level at Crawford Overlook. Extensive wind damage in Borrego Springs. Power still out for large portions of the valley since yesterday evening (video: Sicco Rood).
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Clark 'Dry' Lake still a wet lake 5 days after Hillary (Video: Sicco Rood).
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Above Yaqui Pass road with an Agave deserti var. deserti flowering in the foreground (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Spillover rain combined with 30+ mph winds from a cold front created this low rainbow above the Borrego Valley earlier (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Another desert sunflower bouquet from yesterday morning along Henderson Canyon rd (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Rainfall rates have been between 0.6" to 1" per hour since noon here in Borrego Springs (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Stormy clouds and the Henderson Canyon flower field earlier this week (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Desert lily in bloom in Coyote Canyon by the first crossing (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Spectacular sunrise over Anza-Borrego Desert this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
@NWSSanDiego
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That did not take long for the Anza-Borrego Desert to green up....Ocotillos already leafing out this Monday after the rains from Kay Friday, just two days ago! (Photo: Sicco Rood)
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An area with flowers in the Borrego Badlands this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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A group of four coyotes letting out one last yip-howl before moving down the street from the Reserve this morning (Video: Sicco Rood).
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While no pronounced aurora borealis seen Saturday night from Anza-Borrego, the camera did pick up a fireball at 03:33 am this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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A flash flood at Coyote Creek in Anza-Borrego Desert this afternoon (after the storm clouds cleared), shows how 1 of it's 4 crossings go from passable to impassable in a matter of minutes this afternoon (Video: Sicco Rood).
@NWSSanDiego
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#StormHour
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A desert lily (hesperocallis undulata) flowering in a guly in the Borrego Badlands (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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A coyote stare down at the Salton Sea this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Purple sand verbena this afternoon with the incoming storm above to the west (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Two flowering agave deserti var. deserti in Yaqui Flat just before sunset today (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Rare appearance of a grey fox behind the reserve at dusk (video: Sicco Rood).
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Coyote Creek ran pretty good at some point yesterday as you can see by the mud, and is still running today all the way into the Borrego Sink. Borrego Palm Canyon creek is also running well into the Borrego (Video: Sicco Rood).
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The Santa Rosa Mountains received a considerable amount of snow Friday. Coyote Mountain in the foreground (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Short drive through Culp Valley at 3000 feet about an hour ago (video: Sicco Rood).
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The beautiful Salton Sea this New Year's Eve. As seen from the North Shore area (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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View from the Salton Sea this evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Juvenile coyote pup in Borrego Sink yesterday morning at sunrise (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Fortunately the baby hummingbirds at the Reserve survived the ferocious winds last night (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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A field with desert dandelions (they open their flowers during the day) and some purple sand verbena. Looking west towards the mountains in Borrego Valley this morning just after sunrise (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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At Clark 'Dry' Lake in a boat looking for fairy shrimp. The water is between 3-5 inches deep in places. Just deep enough to float in it with a raft, although one has to propel forward Venetian style (Photo: Sicco Rood)!
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The waning gibbous moon setting behind the San Ysidro Mountains this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Dune evening primroses with water droplets from last night's small rain event. This morning in front of snow capped San Ysidro Mountain. (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Waxing gibbous moon rise this evening over a now fully leafed out ocotillo (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Yesterday's waning crescent moon and an ocotillo before sunrise in the Anza-Borrego Desert (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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