March, 2011

“US farmers fear the return of the Dust Bowl”

“For years the Ogallala Aquifer, the world’s largest underground body of fresh water, has irrigated thousands of square miles of American farmland. Now it is running dry”

“It stretches all the way down the eastern slope of the Rockies from the badlands of South Dakota to the Texas Panhandle. It does not replenish,” quoting UK’s Daily Mail.

UPDATE: April 6, 2011
“Dust Bowl states see farms dry up, fires rage”
“Drought expected to worsen; grass so dry ‘it’s like gasoline’ for wildfires”
Read more from MSNBC.

UPDATE: July 11, 2011
“Drought in 14 states means disaster for many”
“Desperate ranchers likely to cull cattle herds — which could raise meat prices”
Read more by Kim Severson and Kirk Johnson of the New York Times on MSNBC.

UPDATE: July 25, 2011
“A heat wave recap”
“2,100 daily high maximum temperature records have been set so far in July 2011, and 51% of those were set last week. 4,734 daily high minimum temperature records have been set so far this month, and 55% of those were set last week.”
Read more from Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog.

UPDATE: July 27, 2011
“Farmers fight to save crops, herds”
“Texas has been hit especially hard by the record drought”
Read more from Delaware online, a Gannett Company.

In 1987, Ramtha predicted the coming Dust Bowl and the situations leading to such conditions: