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What caused the drought in 1944?
by farmerstan 5y ago
What caused the drought in 1944?
- trhway 5y agoi just googled Russian Volga river and it had dramatic level decrease during 193x into 194x as a result of the 193x drought - similar to the Dust Bowl in the US. NASA has some explanation for the Dust Bowl https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0319dustbowl.html https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0319... Looking into various photos, movies, etc. of 193x it looks to me like it was kind of "sunny" compare to for example very bleak 198x, and it is not surprising - the mid 194x was the warm peak of the 80 years cycle while the 198x were the cold peak (thus for example hit to USSR agriculture in those years which combined with the low oil of the 198x brought the USSR down (and the conditions due to the low peak of the 190x - also pretty bleak years - were a major factor causing the first Russian Revolution in 1905)). The cycle-wise we seems to be coming to the next warm peak which on top of the global warming promises very hot temperatures and droughts for the next decade and even lower water levels for the rivers and the lakes.