Okla. Town Drier Now Than During 1930s Dust Bowl (via @nytimes)

Alexandre Hogue, Dust Bowl, 1933: From Smithsonian American Art Museum via Creative Commons/flickr

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/us/04dust.html?hp

Town, a Dust Bowl Survivor, Endures Another Blow

Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times: Boise City, Oklahama: "...the remote western edge of the Oklahoma Panhandle is quietly enduring a weather calamity of its own: its longest drought on record, even worse than the Dust Bowl, when incessant winds scooped up the soil into billowing black clouds and rolled it through this town like bowling balls.

"Boise (rhymes with voice) City has gone 222 consecutive days through Tuesday with less than a quarter-inch of rainfall in any single day, said Gary McManus, a state climatologist. That is the longest such dry spell here since note-keeping began in 1908..."

also see: 1M Acres Burn: Southern Plains Drought Expands Rapidly, No Relief Soon

http://ddimick.posterous.com/1m-acres-burn-southern-plains-drought-expands

also see: Map: Texas Drought and Heat Conditions

http://ddimick.posterous.com/map-texas-drought-and-heat-conditions-via-nas

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