Return Of The Dust Bowl? The “Megadrought” In The Southwest Is Really Starting To Escalate

eotad ^ | 8/28/2020 | Michael Snyder

[palmer]

Check my previous link to the drought monitor. What you have now is not unprecedented. In the megadrought big picture, Arizona got the worst of the past 20 year deficit. But it's still nothing like past megadroughts anywhere in the west.

[Irenic]

Nobody farms like that any longer, do they? If not—there won’t be ‘another dustbowl’. Drought? Sure. Just nature and cycles.

[palmer]

Here's the recent historical perspective: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/twc/monsoon/monsoon_phx.php

Comparable two year periods: 1914-15, 1924-25, 1944-45.

[newnhdad]

famine, drought, pandemic, looks like we’re all gonna die if Trump is reelected.

[Noumenon]

We just got some showers in the Panhandle here this early morning.

[discostu]

Don’t care if it’s unprecedented or not. It SUCKS. And it’s BAD. And anybody pretending it’s otherwise is DUMB.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Yep, I swear I saw another scare headline over the weekend about the Biblical flood headed for California.

I’ve lived in Texas for 35 years and have survived at least two “Permanent Mega-Droughts.”

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m in New England, and I’ve lost track of how many “Storm of the Century” scares I’ve been through.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

HERE is what Bourke had to say in the book ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK, about the 1870s heat in South Arizona....Whoever transcribed this to on line made many spelling errors.

https://archive.org/stream/ontheborderwithc002470mbp/ontheborderwithc002470mbp_djvu.txt

Chapter 1, page 12.

“The temptations to drink and to gamble were indeed great,
and those who yielded and fell by the way-side numbered many
of the most promising youngsters in the army. Many a brilliant
and noble fellow has succumbed to the ennui and gone down,
wrecking a life full of promise for himself and the service. It
was hard for a man to study night and day with the thermom-
eter rarely under the nineties even in winter at noon, and often
climbing up to and over the 120 notch on the Fahrenheit scale
before the meridian of days between April 1st and October 15th ;”

And this was way before air conditioning and TRUMP could be blamed.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Not good for cactus buyers...

[ConservativeMind]

Discover Magazine does a reasonable job of debunking these concerns from “Divulgence.net”:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/tilt-02

[Veto!]

We got about an hour of showers in Spokane too, but need more. Good luck to you, my FRiend. Keep up the prayers and rain dances. (Even my cat is doing her kitty rain dance.)

[Fiji Hill]

Dust bowl conditions returned to the Western Plains in the mid-1950’s-remembered in the area as the Filthy Fifties.

[polymuser]

And we just had the worst hurricane in history, too...right?

[Dr. Sivana]

And we just had the worst hurricane in history, too...right?

Yeah. Funny thing about these dire articles . . . they are presented as an epic catastrophe, and it doesn't even make it above the fold on page 1 of the local Commie print newspaper, or the lead story on local TV news. I actually kinda like my grass dying so I don't have to cut it.

Finally, saying "The Dust Bowl" is coming to the southwest desert is like saying torrrential flooding may come to the Amazonian rain forest.

[DuncanWaring]

I hope you don’t actually believe any of that.

You can see with your own eyes it’s utter bunk.

[crusty old prospector]

The red color isn’t even the highest level of drought. There is a browner color for that. Like down by Big Bend.

[BiteYourSelf]

I'm gonna channel Sam Kinison here and say: YOU LIVE IN A FREAKING DESERT MOVE!🤣😆😇

[Ozark Tom]

Ask the Anasazi about coping with the long term drought periods of the U.S. southwest.

[grey_whiskers]

That’s cause China’s getting all our rain.