It was from this past Friday! Death valley is a big place so some parts are hit harder than others by the rains. Some roads are closed due to flooding ATM, but the majority of stuff was open, at least the paved road stuff and major Backcountry road attractions.

This past Tuesday, rain and snow heavily hit Death Valley in several spots. We were up at 4100ft at a campground in the panamints (wildrose) and the weather rolled in Monday night and never stopped Tuesday. It was an entire day of sleet, rain, hail, and 55+ mph winds. The winds got so bad in the evening everyone who was tent camping had to give up, pack it up, and leave. We later discovered 2 of our tent poles had shattered. I also watched someone else's tent fly away because they left it behind for the day and didn't stake it down (we tried to weigh it down the best we could but the winds were nuts).

Thursday night brought thunderstorms with lightning, rain, and another intense round of wind to the furnace creek area. We rolled out early Friday and managed to catch rain still down at Badwater Basin. There wasn't a lot of it left already and it was drying up as the sun hit the basin properly over the mountains.

That being said there was definitely way more rain and water in general down there right now. It was clear that a lot of water had pooled in the lower basins after the rains but it always seemed to dry up very quickly the next day.

https://imgur.com/8h7CEqh.jpg https://imgur.com/qSPdC2n.jpg https://imgur.com/KJgokA3.jpg

What you're looking at is actually a spot where an underground river ends and is close enough to the surface so there's always water there.