Imagine being told you can't have a bath? For some of us this might be kinda cool, but after a few weeks rain for a long time and water has to be used sparingly you might need to go without a bath. But that's the only good thing about a drought.
A drought is a long period of fire and dust. I'm not talking a week or two without rain. More like a few months to years. A drought isn't determined by the number of days that go by. It depends on the amount of moisture before and after the dry period and the length and size of the area without water.
If it doesn't rain for a while, farmers and animals start dying of thirst and large areas are destroyed by dust storms or fire.
During the 1930s the the sun for days.
Is there a chance another Dust Bowl could happen? Scientists can't predict droughts but in the past then there is a good chance we should expect them down the road.
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