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The drought of 2012 narrowed navigation channels, forced lock closures, and caused dozens of barges to run aground on the Mississippi River along the Missouri shoreline. The resulting impact on navigation cost the region more than $275 million. The drought of 2012–2013 also threatened municipal and industrial water users along the Missouri ...
In 2011 intense drought struck much of Texas, New Mexico and a large portion of the Southwest bringing much of the region its worst drought seen since the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. Most of the drought in Texas ended or had it impacts ease by spring and summer 2012 as precipitation returned to the region, while the New Mexican drought ...
Missouri generally has a variety of seasonal humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa), with cool winters and long, hot summers. In the southern part of the state, particularly in the Bootheel , the climate borders on a more mild-type humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ), and in the northern third, the state transitions ...
Missouri, enduring over 50 climate disasters in the past decade and ranking among the top five states for climate change impacts, is at the forefront of our nation's climate challenges.
It was the first EF5 to hit the state since 1957 and the deadliest in the U.S. since 1947, making it the seventh deadliest tornado in American history and 27th deadliest in the world. St. Louis and its suburbs also have a history of experiencing particularly severe tornadoes, the most recent one of note being an EF4 that damaged Lambert-St ...
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"The Drought Monitor was never intended to be a climate change indicator — it was meant to be a real-time assessment of drought conditions," said Mark Svoboda, director of the National Drought ...
The map represents the earth's future geography after climatic earth changes due to earthquakes, drought, and other natural disasters. [1] [2] Toye's new earth is called Freedom Star, and major portions of it are under water. In the map, much of the Western United States sinks underwater after a giant asteroid hits Nevada.