Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drought-inflated crop prices are a godsend for any farmers in areas of normal rainfall or for those who have silos full of stockpiled grain from previous years. In addition, higher crop prices could help reduce the federal budget deficit, since the Government will be liable for fewer farm-support payments (last year's total subsidies: $23 billion). Some of the savings, though, will be given as aid to drought-stricken farmers...
...China, traveling by bus and train and plane, I got a few tantalizing glimpses of the changes which are sweeping Chinese society. I was functionally illiterate in the country--even street signs were incomphrehensible--and I used special money for foreigners that insulated me yet further from the normal process of commercial intercourse in China...
...with the National Weather Service. There have been shortages of moisture in the Southeast for years and in the West for several seasons. The winter and spring rains failed to fill reservoirs around the Tennessee Valley. The winter snowpack in the Rockies has been as much as 60% below normal. "Then the drought began in the Missouri-Mississippi watershed all the way to the Gulf," said Gilman. That was caused by a split in the jet stream, which usually carries storms across California into the Midwest, sucking moisture up from the Gulf. But this year its larger current swung north...
...last good rain he felt on his face was in August 1987. In March of this year a 10-in. blizzard roared in and hit his area. He waited it out in his house, daring to hope that this was a break in the dryness and that a normal spring of rain would follow. It did not. Instead came the heat and the wind. Malard gets up every morning by 6 and checks the sky and looks at the thermometer outside his window. He tunes in radio station KFYR in Bismarck for the weather reports. Day after monotonous...
Lowered lakes and rivers mean more danger of sewage, industrial wastes and agricultural chemicals tainting drinking water and recreation areas. Pollutants are diluted and flushed away by surface water in normal times. The drought has also sent water-hungry users to deep wells, and some of these show disturbing concentrations of nitrates and herbicides...