{"id":20808,"date":"2024-02-23T11:17:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T05:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20808"},"modified":"2025-04-06T07:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T02:19:49","slug":"badwater-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/badwater-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Badwater Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Badwater Basin<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0endorheic in nature means water flows into it but not out, typically resulting in rapid evaporation and ephemeral lakes.<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0lowest point in North America at 282 ft (86 m) below sea level.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>However, increased precipitation over the past six months has disrupted this pattern.<\/li>\n<li>It is nestled within the Death Valley in\u00a0North America.<\/li>\n<li>Manly lake was formed in August 2023 after Hurricane Hilary.<\/li>\n<li>While the lake initially shrank as expected, it surprisingly persisted through the fall and winter months.<\/li>\n<li>Its resurgence came in February 2024, when a powerful atmospheric river replenished its waters.<\/li>\n<li>Death Valley\u2019s average annual rainfall of only 51 millimetres, received a remarkable 125 mm in the last six months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Death Valley<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in southeastern California\u00a0in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>It lies near the undefined border between the\u00a0Great Basin and the Mojave Desert.<\/li>\n<li>Most rainfall is blocked by the mountains to the west, so Death Valley is extremely arid.<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0lowest, hottest, and the driest portion of North America, noted for its extremes of temperature and aridity.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Ephemeral lakes?<\/h3>\n<p>These are basins that remain flooded for short periods of time during a year but may not hold water for several years if the rainfall regime is not suitable to produce flooding. Filling of ephemeral lakes is episodic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/climate-change\/driest-place-in-north-america-has-been-home-to-a-lake-for-6-months-show-nasa-images-94583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The driest place in North America has been home to a lake for 6 months<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Badwater Basin is endorheic in nature meaning water flows into it but not out, typically resulting in rapid evaporation and ephemeral lakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}