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The Drought. The Dust Bowl got its name on April 15, ... The term ‘dust bowl’ stuck, and began appearing in radio broadcasts and news publications, in private letters and public speeches.

The effects of The Dust Bowl in the early 1930s led to a wave of record-setting heat waves across the eastern half of the ...

But even so, in 2020, new research found that the heat waves which caused the dust bowl were more than twice as likely to occur as in the 1930s. Here's what it was like and why it could happen ...

In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains during the 1930s. “All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next day ...

The Texas drought that the nation remembers was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. It could be argued, however, that the 1950s drought, which lasted 8 years, was worse than the Dust Bowl.

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Towns in Mid-America are facing water shortages as they grapple with a multiyear drought. The southeast Kansas city of Caney will run out of water by March 1 without rain, officials said.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Dust Bowl was an event that happened almost 100 years ago in the United States where severe dust storms moved across the country damaging agriculture.

Two eastern Iowa counties, Tama and Benton, had the lowest recorded amount of rain in June, July and August in 120 years, Hall said ― drier than any three years during the 1930s Dust Bowl.

Further, the National Weather Service in Wichita shared data that shows this spring is the driest on record since the Dust Bowl. “Unfortunately, Exceptional Drought persists across generally the ...

The Dust Bowl got its name on April 15, ... The drought alone did not cause the black blizzards. Although dry spells are unavoidable in the region, occurring roughly every 25 years, ...