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After looking around I found this article. They essentially argue that a sea surface temperature cause a La Nina or La Nina like drought, but then it morphs in size and perhaps location because of aerosols and vegetation loss into the Dust Bowl. http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=8&a...

Thank you for your response and pointing me in a direction to examine. My follow up question is, ignoring Alaska for a minute, how unusual is it for extreme cold weather to be followed by extreme warm weather in the same year, or in the case of 1936, record breaking temperatures? Of course, the Dust...

Hello everyone, I am a complete novice to meteorology but a Phd in history and am starting to get very interested in climate history. I was recently surprised to learn that on top of being at the heart of the Dust Bowl, 1936 also saw record cold winters. This seems like a story in itself that I neve...