Was 2019 a superbloom year?
A superbloom on the record
Yes — California State Parks put 2019 on the record at Anza-Borrego, Antelope Valley and Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area. We didn't decide that, and we don't decide any of them: the sources are on this page.
What the agency said
On the record with California State Parks
State Parks names 2019 alongside 2017 whenever it looks back at the desert super blooms of the last decade.
What made it: The same pattern that made 2017: a genuinely wet winter arriving after dry years, at parks whose seed banks were waiting for it.
California State Parks, March 2020 · California State Parks, February 2023
The rain behind it: 2018–19
Our station totals do not reach back to the 2018–19 winter, so there are no rain figures to put beside this spring. What is on this page is the record itself — what the agency wrote down, and where.