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Nicknamed black blizzards and occurring amidst the Great Depression, the dust bowl storms were a plague of biblical proportions, a never ending barrage on the people in the high plains. Years of severe drought, improper farming techniques, and strong cold fronts moved billions of tons of dirt across the entire Midwest, clouding the skies of Chicago, Cleveland, and New York, and buried the once prosperous wheat farms in the shortgrass prairies. Today we’ll analyze the atmospheric circulation that caused excessive rain in the 1920s and drought just a decade later, explore how farming on the prairies can affect the atmosphere directly above, and marvel at the sheer magnitude and intensity of the worst dust storms to ever affect the United States.
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