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@weatherboxstudios have you considered starting up a discord? So that way fans and viewers can post footage of storms or suggest video ideas because I would love to post images of some of the damages from the small tornado outbreak in ga on June 15 2023
As someone who's never set foot in the USA, I've been oddly fascinated by the Dust Bowl for a while, so imagine my surprise to see one of my favourite weather channels covering it. And of course you bring your usual in-depth look at exactly what's going on with the weather, winds and temperatures. Thank you.
In high school, I hated writing mid-term papers (especially about subjects that I gave no rat's @$$ about LOL) and history classes in general. I grew up in an area where The Dust Bowl happened, and it intrigued me (because weather). So that year, my US History teacher approved me to make my paper about The Dust Bowl, even though her class didn't go into the 1900s. She actually really liked the paper and it helped me pass 😊
Excellent video, the Dust Bowl should be a lesson and reminder to work with Nature, not ever seek to dominate it again. I lived in Asheville for years, now I am in SW VA. I am heartbroken for my friends there, and two friends are still missing, presumed "Lost" forever. Asheville will never be the same, sadly... But they are already rebuilding in some places, and Chimney Rock is going to be rebuilt in a new configuration, since the river had been rerouted, and has returned to its natural banks. Prayers for Asheville, she still needs so much support.
Had the farmers known how to properly prepare their growing fields for the next season, despite the drought, none of this catastrophe would've occurred. It's terribly sad. Tragic.
I moved to Iowa in 1998 and at the time, farmers would plow their fields after harvest in the fall. Over the next few years I heard about soybean and corn hybrids that could grow through unplowed fields. The talk was that Iowa was losing way too much topsoil from wind erosion and not plowing after harvest would help with that greatly. It's interesting how much this parallels what went wrong in the 30s
Everytime I watch a weatherbox video, I realize there's still much to learn about meteorology, including past climate disasters. Great to see another one!
Im a forester and ecologist from the heart of the (former) tallgrass prairie. You did an excellent job explaining the ecology of the prairie ecosystems! I would love for you to discuss similar weather related ecological events in the future, like the flooding that occurred in northwestern Iowa this past summer. Humans have so heavily altered the hydrology of the prairie pothole regions that we end up causing a lot of flooding that could have been avoided. Great video, as always!
8:06 Lisa was one of my lecturers for a course I took on climate science! Very lovely and passionate scientist. Funny hearing her mentioned, I guess environmental science is a pretty small world
from someone who has a lot of connections to Asheville (personally and with friends), we appreciate your support, and for your absolutely wonderful videos!!
19:00 The picture that you see here is Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" which was taken in Nipomo, California in 1936. The woman pictured by Lange is Florence Owens Thompson. She is seen tending to two of her kids, while the other two kids went into Nipomo to get parts for their car after their car broke down on US Route 101. She was not identified and formally recognized until 1978, when the Modesto Bee tracked her down to a mobile home in Modesto. She passed away on September 16th, 1983. Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" became more than just a symbol of the Dust Bowl, but it also became the symbol of the Great Depression.
clicked the picosecond i saw the notification. this channel has helped me understand how the weather around me works, and has made me much more weather aware. it has also made me more interested in weather from the mundane, to the beautiful, and even to the awesome destruction it can cause.
I’ve always been curious as to the meteorological mechanisms that generated the dust storms during that period, thanks for the dive into it! You’re videos are amazing keep up the great work.
Mate, I only understand half of what you talk about (maybe also because I’m german and I miss some of the vocabulary) But i love your videos. They are so well made and you talk about it with passion. Keep up the great work, and thanks for giving me something to watch, rewatch and wait for.
Oh this is cool! I haven’t thought about the dust bowl since I was in elementary school learning history. I’m a huge weather nerd nowadays so I love learning about the intricacies involved with these historic events.
This is a fantastic topic. You've made terra forma a larger portion of the video. I'm a weather nerd and all of your content appeals to me. Directly correlating land events with weather will (hopefully) increase your viewership. Great work. Your channel is the only one I have set to get alerts. I anxiously await your next video.
This is a really educational and well made video. I had not realized previously the significance humans had on the mid 1930s Dust Bowl. As someone who spends a lot of time in west Kansas, it still gets very dusty often! Hopefully the land can be managed in a way to avoid another event of similar magnitude.
What an excellent video! The Dust Bowl is something that you learn about in school a couple times, and sure the big thing to take away from it is the human-nature interaction and proper land use and stewardship. But it's so fascinating to hear about the meteorological aspect too, made even better by the excellent narrator.
I worked at a local water service in Southern Kansas. The Aquifer used to be so clean it just needed trace chlorination at pump stations. Now its so contaminated by nitrates the town has to fight for grants to build a new treatment plant. The aquifer drainage rate is mitigated with reservoirs mostly. To what effect I don't know. What I do know is things could get ugly fast if it runs out.
I live in New mexico. The wild nature of the region is really evident here. Especially the storms that collapse and begin kicking up monster dust storms like haboobs.
Black Blizzard doesn't mean Oreo Overload at Dairy Queen, y'all! Well done @weatherbox! Aside: Most states had their almanac heat records in the 1930s. And Nebraska has the only National Forest entirely planted by humans.
I learned the Depression hit wheat farming sooner. The wheat boom was WW1! Europe couldn't produce its wheat with all its farmers drafted in desperate war in Britain, France, Germany, and Russian empire had Poland's wheatfields. Boomtime for US food production, a vast expansion of production on high plains. 1920s prices cratered as the veterans went back to farms. The dust bowl was just total destruction but the surviving wheat farmers could sort of make a living with New Deal programs buying surplus.
I don't know why there's so many sponsored ads for ground news. It's not like the regular YT viewer goes through that many news items and investigations ourselves
Quick question (idk much about meteorology) - if the dust storms were caused by the cold fronts from extratropical cyclones, why didn’t they do what most of these cyclones seem to do-dump a ton of Gulf rain in the areas between the warm and cold fronts?
I think there certainly is an argument to be made that it was actually a mistake to settle the short grass prairie. Using unsustainable practices to try to grow crops in a barren desert doesn’t make any more sense in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas than it does in Arizona or California.
Things like the dust bowl are why I am so extremely skeptical of people who offer veganism and plant-based everything as a reasonable "green" future. We know improper and irresponsible farming can be just as if not more dangerous than any number of greenhouse gas emissions.
I guess that's why you need to use several sources to confirm its veracity. They [Ground News] just scrape the web for "news stories" no matter how reliable they are. 1] There are people that create non-true news in order to get ad dollars from clicks etc.. 2] There are also China and Iran that are trying to influence the US for the worse. 3] There are also political actors trying to influence votes and money sent to political organizations, their news sites don't need to have truth at all to get what they want.
@@anthonywatkins462 " It's also why tornadoes are so prevalent in America." Yes, it was implied. But keep proving that you understand literally nothing, not even what you're saying.
@@anthonywatkins462 Also " I'm American lol I only care about America." Go figure, an ignorant american who thinks the entire universe revolves around them. Also explains why you spelled "karma" as "kharma". Go back to grade 1 kid.
@@anthonywatkins462 Also yes, I understand how you americans work, you think the universe revolves around you because of your complete lack of education. Also explains why you spelled "karma" as "kharma". But keep proving the only thing in your head is a breeze.
At least in the Midwest, many of the current daily record high temperatures in the summer months are from 1936. Imagine living in a crowded city with temperatures well into the triple digits and night time temperatures staying in the 80s...for a month straight...without air conditioning (home air conditioners were quite new and were astronomically expensive in the midst of the Depression). While of course extreme cold can be fatal, so can extreme heat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave
