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The Great Plains Research Paper

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The Great Plains has a continental climate. This region has warm summers and cold winters, the major source of moisture there is the Gulf of Mexico. The Southern plains have 15 to 25in (381 to 635mm) of rain annually.³ Rainfall takes place more in the summer than in the winter. The Southern parts of this region have a developing season of 70 to 100 days.³ The southern part of this region also gets 10 to 20in of rain.³ The Great Plains has always been notorious for its incalculable weather and natural disasters. Some of these natural disasters consist of hail storms, blizzards, floods, drought, and tornadoes. The worst and most dreadful natural cataclysmic ever to hit the Great Plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s (Also known as the dirty thirties).

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