Warming Oceans And Agricultural Expansion Driving U.S. Midwest Summer Warming Hole
This is a major reason why the Dust Bowl record highs in this region haven’t been able to be exceeded with global warming causing record highs everywhere else. Our land practices during the Dust Bowl were responsible for greatly amplifying the drought and heat. So the expansion of corn production has created a localized cooling in these areas relative to the rest of the world.
https://www.science.org/content/article/america-s-corn-belt-making-its-own-weather
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But that doesn’t mean global warming has somehow skipped the central US: In a weird twist, climate change may be partly responsible for this gap.
Interestingly enough, the conditions that contribute to the hole actually begin thousands of miles to the west, in the tropical Pacific. “Changing ocean surface temperatures, partly caused by global warming and partly caused by naturally occurring variability, are producing the downstream changes in atmospheric circulation
