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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.
Sources and Further Reading:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRHt48fDIlLn9ga-VJiszr9OWB-jvw7K4wsPFUsQ8OCOl8Wnb9EnBHWjy6rsWIjYbXeKVr6a5u44lax/pub
0:00 Intro
3:32 Great Plains Climatology
7:28 Sea Surface Temps
10:00 Prairie Life in the 1920s
11:08 Disaster Strikes
18:21 A solution!
The Black Blizzards of the Dust Bowl: A Scientific Look at the 1930s Climate Disaster
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Y’all dont understand I be waiting for this dudes uploads daily I’m happy asf
Ironic to cover the worst drought during the worst flood.
I definitely recognized that video clip of Medicine Hat @0:22. Drive past that spot twice a day 6 days a week!
At least Black Blizzard has an amazing song, although not that fun to play.
The Earth could shrug us off with the barest twitch, yet responds to care and stewardship so well.
Thanks Steve for another great analysis of a major weather event from history.
For those who want more details of the event, especially what is was like to live through it, the PBS American Experience documentary "Surviving the Dust Bowl" is an excellent telling of the story, with numerous interviews with many who were children during it, as well as extensive film footage and photographs from the time. Find somewhere you can watch it using your favorite search engine.
You can date a tombstone at a glance by the black stains. Older ones are stained black from coal dust that would get rained out onto them. Back in the coal era, until they had to start using scrubbers in their smokestacks, it coated everything, including peoples lungs.
that 12" of precipitation in Alberta, is that just spring/summer/fall rain? we tend to get more snow than just 12"
Just watched "Hold your breath" so this is perfect ❤
interesting. thank you
This is the best explanation of the Dust Bowl I have ever seen.
I grew up in Nebraska. We learned about and made soil conservation posters in 3rd grade. Later, I moved to the east coast and found out that they learned basically nothing about soil conservation or the Dust Bowl. I know it isn't a priority to those that get plenty of rain per year, but I was dismayed that such a big piece of American history was just ignored.
I don’t know if you take suggestions, but could you cover tropical storm Lee? It hit in 2011, caused massive flooding to the communities on the Susquehanna river
The only reason I grew up in California versus Oklahoma was the Dust Bowl. My great grandmother's family had to move west because of the Dust Bowl.
She had stories of her experience, but she rarely told them, it was a painful memory.
Grasslands National Park (Canada) = best national park.
Thanks for talking about the prairies!
I have my met degree and you combined soil science and climatology into one amazing piece. Nice work
dirt pneumonia is still veery real in austraila we get red out dust storms and black blizzards evry few years some of earths biggest
Very cool
someone show this to KrmaL
My grandmother would tell me stories about the dust storms when she was a child in Wichita KS. The dust got everywhere, no matter what you did. You had to be inside during the storms and even then, the dust would seep through every crack and hole and get inside the house. I also particularly remember her mentioning the static electricity shocks people would get when touching, like you mentioned.
My family had owned a farm for a while, so these modern farming techniques were pointed out to me as a post-dust bowl development, as well as every tree line that was suspiciously in a single line. There are so many of those trees across Oklahoma and Kansas that unless you are aware of the wind break trees, you would have no idea why they lined up so perfectly.
Seems as though "Human induced" climate change has been happening for a couple hundred years.
Our ancestors should have been recycling and using electric cars.
I was born and raised in Amarillo. My paternal grandmother lived there, raised my dad and his 4 other siblings there. She talked about that dust storm and the weather during the time. She talked about wetting towels, blankets, and sheets to put under the door and over the windows but the dust would still leak in. She had dust in everything, including the food.
This was absolutely fascinating and extremely well delivered and produced, I'm subbing!