Rain in the Driest Place in the United States

Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, CA
Canon Powershot SX40 HS

Technically, it is Furnace Creek in Death Valley that is considered the driest place in the United States with an average annual rainfall of  2.3 inches of rain since 1971.  I was just reading that Calexico, CA was actually drier through the first decade of this century by about a half inch a year.  Perhaps in fifty years or so we'll be calling Calexico the driest place in the US.

There have been years when it didn't rain at all in Death Valley.  There have been other years when it had rained so much people were able to go kayaking in Badwater Basin.  Here you can see rain but no kayaks.  It was somewhere in between.

Photo selection inspired by Geogypsy's Foto Friday Fun 124, Image #27.