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Three main factors contribute to the formation of Midwest dust storms: strong winds, dry soil in farm fields and large ...
The NWS Chicago office confirmed that it's been close to a century since the city was hit with an event of this proportion; that storm took place in the early to mid-1930s, during the Dust Bowl era.
A dust storm, also known as a haboob, forms when strong, straight-line winds meet soil residue sitting among crops, collecting the dust there, rising it from the ground and bringing it together to ...
On May 16, Chicago saw its first major dust storm since the Dust Bowl, which stretched from Texas to New York in the early 1930s and deposited 300 million tons of soil across the nation – 12 ...
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Illinois soil and water conservation districts were allocated just $4.5 million for their operations in the budget year that ...
John Dwyer coordinates emergency management in Champaign County, Illinois. He’s seeing a lot more weather extremes, from ...
It's hard to believe the year is half over. As always, there's been some weird weather ranging from snow in unusual places to ...
A new report from the weather service says the dust storm last month, which prompted the Chicagoland area’s first-ever dust storm warning, impacted Lake County. The National Weather Service (NWS ...
"We often say Illinois’ greatest natural asset is its soil. That’s not just rhetoric — it’s reality. Our soil feeds families, ...