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<blockquote data-quote="HDRider" data-source="post: 1683104" data-attributes="member: 17025"><p><h2>Causes</h2><p>In 1930, weather patterns shifted over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.1 The Pacific grew cooler than normal and the Atlantic warmer.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The combination weakened and changed the direction of the jet stream. That air current carries moisture from the Gulf of Mexico up toward the Great Plains. It then dumps rain when it reaches the Rockies. This combination also creates <a href="https://www.thebalance.com/tornado-damage-to-the-economy-3305667" target="_blank">tornadoes</a>. When the jet stream moved south, the rain never reached the Great Plains</p><p></p><p>There were four waves of droughts, one right after another. They occurred in 1930-1931, 1934, 1936, and 1939-1940, but it felt like one long drought. The affected regions could not recover before the next one hit.</p><p></p><h3>1930-1931:</h3><p>The first drought ravaged 23 states in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys. It reached as far east as the mid-Atlantic region and hit eight Southern states. <a href="https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-deflation-definition-causes-and-why-it-s-bad-3306169" target="_blank">Deflation</a> during the Depression drove cotton prices down from $0.18 per pound in 1928 to $0.06 per pound in 1931.11 It cost farmers more to plant cotton than they could get selling it. Farmers could not produce enough food to eat.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.thebalance.com/what-was-the-dust-bowl-causes-and-effects-3305689[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HDRider, post: 1683104, member: 17025"] [HEADING=1]Causes[/HEADING] In 1930, weather patterns shifted over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.1 The Pacific grew cooler than normal and the Atlantic warmer. The combination weakened and changed the direction of the jet stream. That air current carries moisture from the Gulf of Mexico up toward the Great Plains. It then dumps rain when it reaches the Rockies. This combination also creates [URL='https://www.thebalance.com/tornado-damage-to-the-economy-3305667']tornadoes[/URL]. When the jet stream moved south, the rain never reached the Great Plains There were four waves of droughts, one right after another. They occurred in 1930-1931, 1934, 1936, and 1939-1940, but it felt like one long drought. The affected regions could not recover before the next one hit. [HEADING=2]1930-1931:[/HEADING] The first drought ravaged 23 states in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys. It reached as far east as the mid-Atlantic region and hit eight Southern states. [URL='https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-deflation-definition-causes-and-why-it-s-bad-3306169']Deflation[/URL] during the Depression drove cotton prices down from $0.18 per pound in 1928 to $0.06 per pound in 1931.11 It cost farmers more to plant cotton than they could get selling it. Farmers could not produce enough food to eat. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.thebalance.com/what-was-the-dust-bowl-causes-and-effects-3305689[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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