{"id":1748,"date":"2014-11-18T06:57:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T11:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2014-11-18T06:57:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T11:57:11","slug":"dust-storms-again-in-the-high-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"Dust Storms Again in the High Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dust Storms Again in the High Plains<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A cold Arctic air mass swept southward across the high plains last Tuesday, its 50 mph winds dropping temperatures by 50 degrees overnight. Blowing over drought-parched farm soil, the wind created a huge dust storm in eastern Colorado, visible in striking photographs from\u00a0aircraft<\/a>\u00a0and from\u00a0space<\/a>. The same region had\u00a0seven<\/a>\u00a0dust storms last year. In 2012, a severe dust storm caused multiple traffic accidents in northern Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

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Dust storm near Lamar, Colorado, 2013. Photo by Denver Post, permission requested.<\/em><\/p>\n

“You hear sand and dirt pounding against the window,” said Colorado farmer Dave Hixson after a 2013 storm. “You know that it’s your crop that’s hitting the windows and blowing away, and it’s not just affecting you, but also everyone else.”<\/p>\n

Wind takes nearly half the soil eroded from American farmlands. It does its\u00a0worst<\/a>in parts of the high plains, where agriculture is pushing its limits: eastern Colorado and nearby regions of Oklahoma and Texas, as well as North Dakota. East of the high plains, severe wind erosion affects the Red River valley of North Dakota-Minnesota. Unprotected soil blows away many times faster than it forms in these regions.<\/p>\n

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Dust Storms Again in the High Plains. A cold Arctic air mass swept southward across the high plains last Tuesday, its 50 mph winds dropping temperatures by 50 degrees overnight. Blowing over drought-parched farm soil, the wind created a huge dust storm in eastern Colorado, visible in striking photographs from\u00a0aircraft\u00a0and from\u00a0space. The same region had\u00a0seven\u00a0dust […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1220,288,719,1221,1219],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-dust-storms","tag-extreme-weather","tag-severe-weather","tag-soil-erosion","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}