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Models warn of dustier summers in U.S. Southwest and Southern Plains, but Northern Plains may see fewer dust storms year round

Climate Change & Global Warming June 25, 2018

Impacts of global warming on Great Plains summer rainfall and vegetation are biggest unknowns.