The rangers of Death Valley National Park in the United States believe that the prevailing conditions may soon lead to a rare event - a bloom, which will happen for the first time in more than 10 years.
For such a rare bloom, a number of specific weather conditions are required: solar heat, an even distribution of precipitation in winter and spring, and no wind, reports the Huffington Post. The usual spring bloom here is radically different from the rare event in which Death Valley is covered with a sea of flowers.
According to park ranger Alan Van Wallenburg, such an event should not be missed, because it is one of those that can happen once in a lifetime. He noted that those areas that look like desert rocks or barren empty soil, on which there are not even bushes, are actually filled with life - seeds that are just waiting in the wings to germinate. Blooms tend to occur in Death Valley between mid-February and mid-July. The last "super blooms" took place here in 1998 and 2005.
Last year, the Atacamana Desert in northern Chile bloomed - one of the driest places on Earth. Historically record-breaking downpours have caused seeds in the soil to awaken to life. Such blooms are also rare here and occur once every 5-10 years.