Wheat being harvested in Culver, Kansas
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Massive elements of the US Midwest have seen common temperatures cool barely because the Nineteen Fifties, due partly to farmers rising extra crops and pumping extra water for irrigation. However local weather change could ultimately overwhelm this “warming gap”, with implications for crop yields in one of many world’s main breadbaskets.
For many years, local weather researchers have puzzled over anomalously cool temperatures seen within the US Midwest and Southeast because the late Nineteen Fifties. Common temperatures within the area noticed a small decline, at the same time as international …