Dust Bowl

[terstorm1012]

Did anyone catch the Accuweather headline about the Dust Bowl recurring?

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/promotion.a ... e=dustbowl

[Aslkahuna]

Hmmmm, how timely consdering that the current Drought began TEN YEARS ago.

Steve

[terstorm1012]

Hmmmm, how timely consdering that the current Drought began TEN YEARS ago.

Steve

Better late then never is their motto

[wx247]

Interesting history, but I am sure about the timeliness of the information.

[Aslkahuna]

The problem is, as I have said, that pattern has been in place for the past 10 years and drought has been occurring in the old Dust Bowl since 1996. In addition, the land use policies and procedures now in place and which were put in place after the 1930's drought have mitigated to a large extent the occurrence of massive duststorms such as occurred then. The Dust Bowl was as much about poor land use practices as it was the Drought since though bad the 1930's Drought was not necessarily the worst one in the region. In fact, the 1950's Drought in W.TX and NM was worse than the 1930's drought.
Droughts happen in the western Plains and Western States about every 20 years on average.

Steve

[terstorm1012]

good point steve, i hadn't realized that, especially about the cyclidal nature of droughts in that area of the country. In that regard, Accuweather may just be being sensationalistic as they are prone to do (and please noone take that as a bash at Accuweather).

[bob rulz]

The problem is, as I have said, that pattern has been in place for the past 10 years and drought has been occurring in the old Dust Bowl since 1996. In addition, the land use policies and procedures now in place and which were put in place after the 1930's drought have mitigated to a large extent the occurrence of massive duststorms such as occurred then. The Dust Bowl was as much about poor land use practices as it was the Drought since though bad the 1930's Drought was not necessarily the worst one in the region. In fact, the 1950's Drought in W.TX and NM was worse than the 1930's drought.
Droughts happen in the western Plains and Western States about every 20 years on average.

Steve

Did you even notice that they mentioned that the dust storms wouldn't happen?

[Aslkahuna]

They used the term Dust Bowl which would imply they were expecting something like the 1930's. I did read the referred article but at my age it's easy to have a reading glitch so I missed it. However, my point was that the Drought has been in place for 10 years now and there have been years in that period of time as bad or even worse than this year so they are a little late in talking about it.

Steve

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

I hate to say it, but it doesn't look good for us in Texas and Arizona.

[Aslkahuna]

Yep, I'm approaching the 4 year mark for posting those outlooks on a certain cannot be mentioned homepage.

Steve