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1950s–1960s North American drought
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1950s North American drought 1960s North American drought sources don't treat these as one event, so neither should we. Feel free to change the two titles to better ones November 2024
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Droughts in the 1950s began in Southwest states in the United States, including Central California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and the Western Texas areas.The Bark without the Bite 26 January 2016 The Climate Programs Office https://cpo.noaa.gov/bark-without-bite-the-socio-economic-context-of-the-1950s-drought/#:~:text=The%20drought%20of%20the%201950s,and%20by%20excessively%20high%20temperatures November 16, 2024 Beginning in 1954 the droughts spread to the Rocky Mountain areas, Great Plains, Upland South regions and Midwestern United States.The Drought Trend in Illinois The ISWS https://www.isws.illinois.edu/statecli/climate-change/ildrought.htm November 16, 2024 The 1950s droughts were extremely and especially widespread in the Central United States, the Great Lakes area and Middle Atlantic region (i.e. from Virginia to Pennsylvania, New Jersey and southeast New York State) during 1954.The Bark without the Bite 26 January 2016 The Climate Programs Office https://cpo.noaa.gov/bark-without-bite-the-socio-economic-context-of-the-1950s-drought/#:~:text=The%20drought%20of%20the%201950s,and%20by%20excessively%20high%20temperatures November 16, 2024 The dry conditions, however, began subsiding in 1958 and 1959. The driest years during this decade were in 1954 and 1956.
The 1960s droughts
The 1960s saw conditions of drought similar to the 1950s: In 1962, dry spells affected New England. That included Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.10.1029/2020EF001930 A Retrospective and Prospective Examination of the 1960s U.S. Northeast Drought 2021 Xue Zeyu Ullrich Paul Earth's Future 9 7 2021EaFut...901930X free The 1960s droughts also affected States from New York to Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana in these years.The 1960s Droughts and New York Watersheds Journal of Climate October 2012 25 19 6721–6742 The American Meteorological Society 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00518.1 https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/25/19/jcli-d-11-00518.1.xml August 8, 2024 Seager Richard Pederson Neil Kushnir Yochanan Nakamura Jennifer Jurburg Stephanie Examinations of the 1960s U.S. Droughts The Earth and Environment Systems Modeling https://climatemodeling.science.energy.gov/research-highlights/retrospective-and-prospective-examinations-1960s-us-northeast-drought August 8, 2024 Parts of Great Plains or other Midwestern States were also hit by dry conditions during this decade. The Eastern United States were especially affected from 1962 to 1966.10.1029/2020EF001930 A Retrospective and Prospective Examination of the 1960s U.S. Northeast Drought 2021 Xue Zeyu Ullrich Paul Earth's Future 9 7 2021EaFut...901930X free
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