The major storms that battered parts of the state of California this year were intense, disruptive, and in some cases, tragic; but many people must have remembered back to 2019 and anticipated a spring to remember.

Indeed, the new 'Superblooms' emerging across the state are so large and so colorful, they can be seen from space.

The LA Times talked to a scientist who pointed out that there is no natural definition of a Superbloom—they are rather a cultural phenomenon when humans decide enough flowers emerge at one time in one place.