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cipitation. The great drought of 1894-95 burst that bubble.
In the 1930’s, some people decided that radio broadcasting prevented rain by putting large amounts of electricity into the atmosphere. Thousands of farmers wrote Congress asking that all stations be silenced until rain broke the tragic drought. The 1963 crisis has been blamed on nuclear explosions, sunspots, an increase in the speed of the earth’s rotation—and the growing network of paved hrfehways.
Meterologists explain, however, that droughts usually develop when a stream of dry air persistently pours into a region, supplanting moist air. But nobody knows why the air currents shift, and weathermen cannot predict droughts.
It is widely held that dry
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