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Strange Sounds<\/a> – Apr 18, 2020<\/p>\n In the 1930s, the United States was suffering from the most severe drought in its history, the \u201cDust Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n And be prepared to bite the dust once again, because scientists think the Dust Bowl is coming back for a second round. And this time for it could even last during decades<\/a>.<\/p>\n A new study<\/a> has used 1,200 years of tree-ring data, soil moisture records, and dozens of climate models to describe the\u00a0ever-lengthening string of dry spells\u00a0that have hit\u00a0the western United States and northern Mexico over recent decades.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n They found that a\u00a0chronic drought has been lurking\u00a0around the southwestern US\u00a0and northern Mexico since at least the year 2000.<\/p>\n The spell of aridity has already become so severe it\u2019s already surpassed three of the four notoriously arid megadroughts of Medieval times.<\/strong><\/p>\n The researchers were uncertain about the extent of the fourth Medieval megadrought, which spanned from 1575 CE to 1603 CE, although they note the current drought is affecting wider areas more consistently than any megadrought since 800 CE.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe now have enough observations of current drought and tree-ring records of past drought to say that we\u2019re on the same trajectory as the worst prehistoric droughts,<\/strong><\/em>\u201d\u00a0stated<\/a> lead author Park Williams.<\/p>\n https:\/\/strangesounds.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Strange Sounds – Apr 18, 2020 In the 1930s, the United States was suffering from the most severe drought in its history, the \u201cDust Bowl.\u201d And be prepared to bite the dust once again, because scientists think the Dust Bowl is coming back for a second round. And this time for it could even last … Continue reading Western U.S. Is Facing the Worst Megadrought in Over 1,200 Years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[14919,36,34,13328,14921,14920,14922,6309],"class_list":["post-18503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-horse","tag-chronic-drought","tag-disaster","tag-drought","tag-dust-bowl","tag-medieval-times","tag-megadroughts","tag-park-williams","tag-severe-drought"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4Or","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18505,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions\/18505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}