“Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America” predicts that climate change will permanently alter the landscape of the Southwest so severely that conditions reminiscent of the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s could become the norm within a few decades
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I saw this earlier and I thought… How can a desert become a dustbowl ?
I do not recall the number of Dust Storms I experienced while living in the desert. It may well have something to do with the number of sand dunes there. One of the hazards of living in the desert is inhaling the particulate matter when the wind blows. The particulate matter is normally “Dust”! There they issued air quality alerts on windy days for excess “Dust” in the air.
Who would think the desert could become a “Dust” Bowl?
Aha ! So it is already dusty. That explains a lot.
lmao!!!! Do they mean our desert will become dry? OMG!!!!! Panic time!!! Who would have ever thunk it?
Do the people at NCAR realize people make fun of them regularly??Wait, scratch that. One thing I don’t want to dry up is the sources we can use for our derisive ridicule!Jimash, I think the term will be super exponential dust bowlness. Or maybe supraexponentially ariditity!
NCAR’s weather side is great. Their climate side, not so good.
True that. Facts, good….. interpreting the facts for us, ……again, not so good.
For Las Vegas Nevada:
10 WETTEST YEARS 10 DRIEST YEARS
10.72…..1941 0.56…..1953
9.88…..1992 0.76…..1948#
7.96…..1965 1.11…..1968
7.76…..2004 1.12…..1964
7.65…..1978 1.27…..1985
7.37…..2005 1.44…..2002
7.35…..1998 1.45…..1962
7.30…..1939 1.59…..2009
6.86…..2003 1.69…..2006
6.85…..1984 1.91…..1966
I was there for all but one of the wettest and three of the driest.
Annual rain fall for a desert location:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/vef/climate/figure5.php
Correction, I was not there in either 1941 or 1938 for wettest or in 1948, 2006 or 2009 for driest
We had a nice little sand storm on Monday here in Phoenix. On my way home from work I saw it forming off to the south.
This one was no big deal – most of them really don’t amount to much but here’s a nice video. Ignore the hyperbole “massive dust storm”.
It is kind of lame that people would actually find it notable and a novel discovery that the desert is hot, dry, and dusty. I mean, who would have thunk it? /sarc
Damn! There goes my plans for growing rice in Phoenix. I sure hope it doesn’t get rainy in Seattle or cold in Minot this year as a result of my selfish lifestyle.
Someone check and see who NCAR lists as buried in Grant’s tomb.