But if you want to experience the so-called "super bloom," you better get out there now as the color is fading fast. 

"The rainy season shut off pretty quickly in Southern California and things dried up," said Richard Minnich, a professor of geography in the Earth Sciences Department at the University of California, Riverside. "The lower elevations such as Death Valley and Anza-Borrego are all done. You've got to go the higher-elevations such as above 4,000 feet in Joshua Tree or the Mojave Desert to see the flowers right now."

Carrizo Plain National Monument, a five-hour drive from San Francisco, has possibly this season's best floral display and over the weekend, Facebook and Instagram were filled with images from the park, a vast stretch of grassland. 

 
"You definitely have a feeling of being at a very unique place at just the right time," said Darren Peck, a meteorologist with Fox 40 in Sacramento, who visited the park over the weekend and photographed the spectacle. "It's kind of surreal that way as you're seeing the landscape as if it's an over-exaggeration."

The flowers are still abundant but past peak. "We're still seeing some good displays of yellow," a voice recording for the park's main number stated on April 16. "However most of our other colors are gone or will be gone soon."

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