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– Dorothea Lange's 1937 photo of a Missouri migrant family's jalopy stuck near Tracy, California. [35] Between 1930 and 1940, about 3.5 million people moved out of the Plains states. [36] In just over a year, over 86,000 people migrated to California. This number is more than the number of migrants to that area during the 1849 gold rush. [37]
Drought worsened in 1988 as much of the United States also suffered from severe drought. In California, the six-year drought ended in late 1992 as a significant El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean (and the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991) most likely caused unusual persistent heavy rains. [26]
Drought worsened in 1988–1989, as much of the United States also suffered from severe drought. In California, the five-year drought ended in late 1991 as a result of unusual persistent heavy rains, most likely caused by a significant El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean and the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991. [51]
1930s – Almost every year from 1930 to 1938 featured historic heat waves and droughts somewhere in North America, part of the Dust Bowl years. 1936 – 1936 North American heat wave during the Dust Bowl, followed one of the coldest winters on record—the 1936 North American cold wave. Massive heat waves across North America were persistent ...
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In February 2014, after three consecutive years of below-normal rainfall, California faced its most severe drought emergency in decades with fish populations in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in unprecedented crisis due to the decades of large-scale water exports from Northern California to south of the Delta via state and federal ...
Furthermore, not enough rain fell over the areas in question in the period between 1930 and 1941, [2] one of those periods being 1934–35. According to numerous studies, the 1934–35 droughts and heat might have certainly been the worst such events in the 20th century at that particular time. [ 4 ]
1990 Feb 16 - 4th year of drought expected to cause cutbacks in water to users [488] Jul 15 - $150 million environmental CVP legislation angers farmers and PG&E [489] 1991 - State Water Board produces Bay-Delta salinity control plan but partially rejected by the EPA; Construction completed on four south Delta pumping facilities [490]