The Great Plains and Mississippi River corridor have experienced a number of severe drought events in the last 100 years, including droughts of the early 1930s, 1988, and 2012. The drought of 2012 was among the most damaging.
1930 and 1988 climate change? Asking for a friend
It’s as though these folks have never heard of the Dust Bowl. And the Mississippi River is at one of its lowest levels in recorded history, snarling barge traffic, but it was also so afflicted in 1988.