Drought and dust
Posted on | October 22, 2012 | No Comments
According to NASA, portions of Interstate 35 in Kansas and Oklahoma, as well as Interstate 80 in Wyoming, had to be shut down due to accidents and poor visibility. Click on the photo for the full resolution image and text from the Earth Observatory.
“Parched by months of drought and searing heat, the Great Plains of the United States endured a widespread dust storm in mid-October 2012,” reports NASA’s Earth Observatory. “Severe winds blew soil and sediment across hundreds of miles, closing highways and reminding longtime residents of the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s and the severe dust storms of the 1950s.”
Category: climate change
Tags: chance of rain > climate change > dust storms > NASA Earth Observatory
Tags: chance of rain > climate change > dust storms > NASA Earth Observatory
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