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On
April 7, 1873, Vermonters were blanketed with an early spring snow
storm. That’s not particularly unusual in Vermont, unless,
of course, the snow happens to be black.
The
snow crystals for this particular storm became contaminated with
large amounts of airborne dirt. The dirt came from drought and dust
bowl conditions across the Great Plains, a weather phenomenon that
had gone on for 13 long years. Kansas and Nebraska, in particular,
had been parched and devastated.
Loose,
dry earth from the Midwest was carried eastward at high altitudes
by global wind currents, creating Vermont’s freakish, black
snow.
Top
image taken by The Vermont Book Of Days.
Bottom
image from the collections of Paul Dale.
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Black snow that blanketed Vermont on this day in 1873
A postcard taken of a dust bowl in Kansas.
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